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Zuck just revealed the secret ingredient in his bromance with Jensen Huang

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Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg have had each other over for dinner. Getty Images
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang's friendship appears to be Silicon Valley's latest bromance.

They have a lot in common: both run Big Tech firms worth trillions, they each have a signature jacket, and now they're bonding over cheesesteaks.

The Meta CEO said the dynamic duo like to break bread and revealed what they chat about when they get together.

On a podcast with internet personality Roberto Nickson that dropped on Thursday, Zuck said: "Jensen is really into cooking, so he invited me over to his house."

He added: "When we went over to his place, he was like, 'Let's make cheesesteaks,' and I'm like, 'hell yeah, let's make cheesesteaks"/index.html"

Zuck also shared that Huang talks to him about how he approaches building Nvidia and the pair exchange stories and experiences from running their own companies.

"He and I, at this point, are the longest-standing tech founders of Big Tech companies," Zuck said.

The Meta chief is worth $178 billion, per Bloomberg, and just became the world's third-richest person, overtaking Elon Musk. Huang is worth less than half as much — $74.6 billion.

However, the positions are reversed when it comes to the value of their respective companies: the chipmaker is worth $2.1 trillion, while the Facebook and Instagram owner trails at just $1.3 trillion.

Zuckerberg recently posted a photo on Instagram showing they'd swapped their jackets. Zuck wrote in a comment: "He's like Taylor Swift, but for tech."

Zuck's also sustained their budding bromance by writing a profile of Huang for Time magazine's Time100: Most Influential People of 2024 list.

He wrote: "I always admired leaders who have the grit and determination to stick with their vision for long periods of time. Jensen Huang is the clear leader of the tech industry in this regard."

Zuck praised Huang's ability to "evolve and execute" and build Nvidia into a power player in AI. "On top of this, Jensen has also taken the time to help me and other founders when we've faced challenges. I'm deeply appreciative of everything he has done for our industry."

Representatives for Zuckerberg at Meta and Huang and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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Jyoti Mann
Jyoti Mann
Jyoti Mann is a former senior reporter for BI who covered tech companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.Jyoti holds a master's degree in investigative journalism and was previously reporting on the companies desk at the Financial Times. She spent more than three years working as a hedge fund consultant carrying out investigative research. She has previously written for the Financial Times and The Times. Sample of stories: Amazon's full RTO is off to a bumpy start. Some staff complain of a lack of space and theft. And they're still on video chats.Internal Meta memo tells managers how performance-based job cuts will workStripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid offKlarna tells employees it will start drug testing workers in Sweden