When Jensen Huang and Lori Mills married in 1985, he was still years away from founding NVIDIA. The famous black leather jacket, the packed keynote speeches, and the global attention around artificial intelligence were all far in the future.

What they had then was much simpler: a marriage that had begun in a college classroom, a shared background in engineering, and a belief that the young man who once promised to become a CEO by age 30 might someday make good on his words.

The world she helped steady

After their marriage, Lori gradually stepped back from her own career and focused more on the family. It was not a small decision. She had studied engineering and worked in chip design at Hewlett-Packard. She understood the world Jensen Huang hoped to enter, and the kind of focus his work would demand.

Jensen Huang was intensely committed to his career, but in daily life, he could be careless about ordinary details. He disliked shopping and did not want to spend time thinking about clothes. Even wearing a watch felt unnecessary to him. He once explained that he did not wear one because he liked to live in the present.

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