Jensen Huang’s signature black leather jacket just sold at Sotheby’s for nearly $1 million—and the money is going to young tech builders

One of Jensen Huang’s iconic leather jackets just sold at auction for $960,000, with the proceeds going toward philanthropy. 

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 ear...