(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, March 9, 2022) Jensen Huang, the chief Chinese executive of the semiconductor company "Nvidia" (also translated as Nvidia), is also among the top 10 richest people in California. (Photo from Wikipedia)

In the "Forbes" (also translated as Forbes) list of the 400 richest people in the United States, 89 billionaires call California home. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the first richest person in California and is currently the richest person in California, with a worth of 134.5 billion. Jensen Huang, the Chinese American CEO of semiconductor company "Nvidia" (also translated as Nvidia), is also among the top 10 richest people in California.

Nvidia, co-founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, is in Santa Clara, Northern California's Silicon Valley). Born in Tainan, Taiwan, Jen-Hsun Huang moved to the United States with his family at the age of nine, first living in Oneida, Kentucky, and then Oregon. He graduated from Aloha High School outside Portland, Oregon, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.

After graduating from university, Jen-Hsun Huang worked as a director at LSI Logic and as a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). In 1993, also on his 30th birthday, Huang co-founded Huida and served as CEO and President. Huida went public in 1999, and Huang Renxun owns 3.6% of Huida's stock.

According to Wikipedia, Jen-Hsun Huang earned $24.6 million as CEO in 2007, placing him as the 61st highest-paid CEO at Forbes in the United States. During the recession from 2008 to 2010, Jen-Hsun Huang voluntarily lowered his salary to $1.

Jen-Hsun Huang had a net worth of $14.3 billion as of April 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Looking at California, most of the richest people got rich in the tech industry, but there are some big names in the entertainment industry, such as "Star Wars" founder George Lucas (George Lucas), ranked 124th, worth 7.2 billion; Prolific director Steven Spielberg, at No. 310, is worth $3.7 billion.

In addition, some food industry leaders also made the list of the top 400 richest people, including Lynsi Snyder, owner, and heir of well-known burger chain In-N-Out, ranked 269th with a net worth of 4.2 billion yuan; Also in the food industry is Marijke Mars, part of the Marijke Mars candy bar family.

Here are the top 10 richest people in California, according to Forbes: Facebook co-founder Zuckerberg; Google co-founder Larry Page; Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Jobs widow Laurene Powell Jobs and family; Huang Renxun, CEO of semiconductor company Huida; founder of Ubiquiti Networks Robert Pera; real estate developer Donald Bren; venture capitalist John Doerr.

While Zuckerberg is currently the richest person in California, he is not the richest person in the United States, and he ranks third nationally. The top two are Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who lives in Washington, and Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, who founded Tesla in California but Moved corporate headquarters to Texas.

(Source: Compiled from Online Information)

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