Jensen Huang floats giving engineers tokens worth half their annual salary on top of pay as a recruiting strategy

Nvidia's Jensen Huang becomes the first high-profile CEO to float tokens as a recruitment strategy.

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• Nvidia's Jensen Huang becomes one of the first CEOs to float tokens as a recruitment strategy.
• Huang said engineers will soon be asking "how many tokens comes along with my job?"
• Nvidia engineers could get tokens worth half their annual salary on top of base pay, Huang said.

The Nvidia CEO is floating a novel perk to attract talent: tokens.