Jensen Huang says of his Kentucky boarding school: "I loved the time I was there"

In an NPR interview cited in an AFP profile, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recalled being sent at age nine with his brother to a Kentucky boarding school. An uncle had told their parents it was prestigious, but it was actually meant for students with behavioral problems; Huang was too young to enroll, so he lived there while attending a nearby public school. He has said classmates mistreated him because of his limited English and that he was assigned cleaning work, a two-year period the article describes as formative. The profile says Huang now leads Nvidia, a $4.5 trillion chip company central to AI, and faces a board review after reports that U.S. intelligence officials suspected he had ties to a Chinese executive alleged to be a spy. He has acknowledged marital infidelity and expressed remorse.