This 5-year-old kid who dressed up as Jensen Huang for a festival has already won Halloween
A 5-year-old boy from Taipei dressed up as Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang.
This Halloween, CEO costumes are in.
At least, that’s the case for the 5-year-old boy from Taipei who dressed up as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for the holiday.
The boy’s costume, which features Huang’s signature black leather jacket look and some homemade Nvidia tech as an accessory, went viral after an X user posted it online Wednesday.
“The Jensen Huang Halloween costumes are here,” the user wrote.
The boy’s mom, Kuo Yuyun, told Business Insider she was inspired to create the costume after seeing the CEO on TV.
“He always wears classic black leather jackets and visits the most down-to-earth night markets in Taiwan. This contrasting image left a deep impression, so I asked my son to dress up as him this time,” she said.
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Kuo said the costume — including the elaborate tech accessory, which she described as a GPU — took a week to make. She dressed her son up as part of the Tianmu Halloween Festival in Taipei.
“We also participated in the event last year,” she said. “I dressed him up as a typhoon. It was also loved by everyone.”
“He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person,” the boy’s mom told B-17.
Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded Nvidia in 1993. The AI boom has turned the chipmaker into a $3.42 trillion giant and made Huang the 11th-richest person in the world, with Bloomberg estimating his net worth at $122 billion.
Today, Nvidia is at the head of the AI revolution. The company reported $30.04 billion in revenue for the second quarter of the year, doubling revenue from the same time last year and beating analyst expectations. The company’s stock is up 181% in 2024.
Huang and Nvidia alike have inspired cultlike followings across the world. Huang’s signature leather jacket has spawned legions of copycats; Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings created an unofficial watch party at a bar in New York City.
On a trip to Taiwan in May of last year, Huang was greeted like a rock star and mobbed with selfie requests. And at a tech event in Taiwan in June, Huang fielded — and fulfilled — fan requests to sign MacBooks, chips, and even one woman’s top.
Some of that cult status appears to have trickled down to Kuo’s 5-year-old son.
“He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person,” Kuo said. “To him, he is like a ‘superhero.'”
“Children especially like to dress up as superheroes like Iron Man and Superman. That’s how we described the existence of such a person,” Kuo said about Huang. “Then there is his impact on the technology industry, and even the impact on our people when he came to Taiwan.”
Nvidia’s official Instagram page also reposted the photo of the boy, garnering more than 17,000 likes in a day.
“We spotted mini-Jensen in Taiwan, well-crafted GPUs in hand!” the caption read.
Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from B-17 for this story.
