- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unloaded roughly $36.4 million worth of stock, 225,000 shares, of the chipmaker, according to an SEC filing.
- Huang adopted a plan in March to unload up to 6 million shares of Nvidia through the end of the year and sold his first batch of stock in June.
- Huang has caught up to Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett in net worth, according to analysis from Fortune and Bloomberg.
Nvidia
CEO
Jensen Huang
unloaded roughly $36.4 million worth of stock in the leading
artificial intelligence
chipmaker, according to a U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
filing.
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The sale, which totals 225,000 shares, comes as part of Huang’s previously adopted plan in March to unload up to 6 million shares of Nvidia through the end of the year. He sold his
first batch of stock
from the agreement in June, equaling about $15 million.
Last year, the tech
executive
sold about $700 million worth of shares as part of a prearranged plan. Nvidia stock climbed about 1% Friday.
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Huang’s net worth has skyrocketed as investors bet on Nvidia’s AI dominance and graphics processing units powering large language models.
The 62-year-old’s wealth has grown by more than a quarter, or about $29 billion, since the start of 2025 alone, based on
Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index
. His net worth last stood at $143 billion in the index, putting him neck-and-neck with
Berkshire Hathaway
‘s
Warren Buffett
at $144 billion.
Shortly after the market opened Friday,
Fortune
‘s analysis of net worth had Huang ahead of Buffett, with the Nvidia CEO at $143.7 billion and the Oracle of Omaha at $142.1 billion.
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The company has also achieved its own notable milestones this year, as it prospers off the AI boom.
On Wednesday, the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker became the first company to top a
$4 trillion market capitalization
, beating out both
Microsoft
and
Apple
. The chipmaker closed above that milestone Thursday as CNBC reported that the technology titan met with President
Donald Trump
.
Brooke Seawell
, venture partner at New Enterprise Associates, sold about $24 million worth of Nvidia shares, according to an
SEC filing
. Seawell has been on the company’s board since 1997, according to the company.
Huang still holds more than 858 million shares of Nvidia, both directly and indirectly, in different partnerships and trusts.
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