Many tech executives have their signature look, like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s t-shirts and hoodies, and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs’ turtleneck, and Huang, the Nvidia CEO’s, happens to be very expensive leather jackets.
He’s nearly always seen in them, and many of the leather jackets in his wardrobe cost several thousand dollars a pop. But Huang has never shied away from his identity-making garments.
“You may know me better as ‘the guy in the leather jacket who repeats things three times,’” Huang wrote when he hosted a Reddit AMA in 2016. It’s become his signature look, and one he sported when he was on the cover of Time in 2021 as one of its men of the year.
The jacket, which went up for auction earlier this month via Sotheby’s, had a presale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. But bidding blew those estimates out of the water. The proceeds will go toward a philanthropic initiative organized by San Francisco-based venture capital firm Long Journey Ventures to benefit the Edge Institute, a nonprofit that brings together people working in tech, science, culture, and society to live together in pop-up villages and work on experiments.
Photo courtesy Sotheby’s
