NEW YORK: A black leather jacket worn by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered for US$960,000 at a New York public sale on Friday (Jul 17), 16 occasions increased than its estimated worth of US$60,000, in response to Sotheby’s.
The auctioneer stated in a press release that 45 collectors bid on the Tom Ford jacket, with Sotheby’s head of contemporary collectibles Brahm Wachter calling it “an object so intently tied to one of many defining figures of the AI period.”
Very like Apple founder Steve Jobs’ penchant for black turtlenecks or Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg’s countless wardrobe of gray T-shirts, Mr Huang has made leather-based jackets a part of his signature type, carrying one in almost each public look, together with the duvet of Time journal in 2021.
As head of Nvidia, he has seen the chipmaker develop to change into the highest-valued publicly traded firm on the earth.
Proceeds from the public sale will profit the Edge Institute, a non-profit organisation devoted to instructing English and instructing professionals in Western enterprise and academic strategies.
