A 5-year-old boy in Taiwan dressed up as Nvidia’s Jensen Fan for Halloween. The boy wore the fan’s signature black leather jacket and carried around homemade Nvidia technology. “He just knows he’s pretending to be a very remarkable person,” the boy’s mother told BI.
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CEO costumes will be available this Halloween.
At least that’s the case for a 5-year-old boy in Taipei who dressed up as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for the holidays.
The boy’s costume, complete with Fan’s signature black leather jacket look and homemade Nvidia technology as an accessory, went viral after an X user posted it online on Wednesday.
“Jensen Fan’s Halloween costume is here,” the user wrote.
The boy’s mother, Kuo Youyun, told Business Insider that she was inspired to create the costume after watching CEO on TV.
“He always wears a classic black leather jacket and visits the most realistic night market in Taiwan. This contrasting image left a deep impression on me, so this time I asked my son to dress up like him. I asked him to do it,” she said.
Kuo said the costume (which included an elaborate technological accessory she described as a GPU) took a week to make. She had her son dress up as part of Taipei’s Tianmu Halloween Festival.
“We also participated in this event last year,” she said. “We dressed up as a typhoon. It was well received by everyone.”
“He just knows he’s pretending to be a very remarkable person,” the boy’s mother told BI. Courtesy of the source
Mr. Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded NVIDIA in 1993. The AI boom has grown the chipmaker into a $3.42 trillion behemoth, making Huang the 11th richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated by Bloomberg at $122 billion.
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Nvidia is currently at the forefront of the AI revolution. The company reported sales of $30.04 billion in the second quarter of this year, doubling sales from the same period last year and exceeding analyst expectations. The company’s stock price will rise 181% in 2024.
Huang and Nvidia similarly inspire cult followings around the world. Mr. Huang’s signature leather jacket has spawned a slew of imitators. An informal watch party was held at a New York City bar following Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings.
During a trip to Taiwan last May, Huang was welcomed like a rock star and swarmed with requests for selfies. And at a technology event in Taiwan in June, fans responded to requests from fans to autograph MacBooks, chips, and even one woman’s top.
Some of that cult status appears to have spilled over to Kuo’s 5-year-old son.
“He just knows he’s playing someone very remarkable,” Kuo said. “He’s like a ‘superhero’ to him.”
“Kids especially like to dress up as superheroes like Iron Man and Superman. That’s how we represented the existence of such characters,” Kuo said of Fan. “And the impact he had on the technology industry and even on our people when he came to Taiwan.”
Nvidia’s official Instagram page also reposted the boy’s photo, which received more than 17,000 likes in one day.
“We found a mini-Jensen with a finely crafted GPU in Taiwan!” the caption read.
Nvidia did not respond to BI’s request for comment on this story.
October 31, 2024: This story has been updated with additional comment from Kuo Yuyun.
