Curtis Priem founded Nvidia alongside Jensen Huang and Chris Malachowsky on April 5, 1993. Priem also served as the firm's CTO. Priem transferred most of his shares to a charitable foundation following Nvidia's 1999 IPO after deciding it was an "excessive amount of money" to hold onto. He left the company a few years later partly due to a stormy first marriage that ended in divorce and domestic violence allegations against his ex-wife. Priem sold the rest of his shares by 2006. They were worth between $3.50 and $6 that year. It's estimated that he would be worth around $70 billion if he'd held onto his stock. In 2023, Priem is estimated to be worth around $30 million. That includes a $6 million home near Fremont, California. He has donated more than $275 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) since 2001. The total could be even more as he's thought to be behind an anonymous donation of $360 million in 2001. He's also pledged to give approximately $80 million more. In 2021, he purchased a Gulfstream G450 private jet he named "Snoopy," Forbes reported, and he was now using his jet, which its maker Flexjet describes as "long-range luxury," to fly to RPI four times a year.
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