Jensen Huang, the immigrant to whom Silicon Valley pays a toll for the 'golden' of AI. Huang used clairvoyance to realize, before anyone else, that his microprocessors intended for graphics design could be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

The proof is in its dizzying rise. Nvidia shares have soared 20,000% in a decade and 500% in the last 18 months. Huang's fortune, who controls 3.5% of the shares of the company he founded with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in 1993.