Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and I went to the same Oregon high school — it now ranks 263/271
afurgs · x · 2026-11-14
An X user with business ties to a compute provider shares a personal connection to Jensen Huang: both attended Aloha High School, which Huang graduated from at 16 and which now ranks 263/271 in Oregon — windowless, so students joked it was a prison. The author recalls growing up on Section 8 housing with a mom working two jobs, contrasting with classmates whose parents designed Nike sneakers.
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