Eating with staff in the cafeteria, no 1:1 meetings, and being the "custodian of the culture" are just some aspects of Jensen Huang's management style.

Huang agrees with employees who say he isn't easy to work for, but cites his leadership style as a feature, not a bug, of Nvidia's success.

So, we went to Silicon Valley to meet Nvidia's 61-year-old co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who has no doubt AI is about to change everything. At Nvidia's annual developers conference this past March, the mood wasn't just upbeat ... it was downright giddy.