Nancy Pelosi has earned millions of dollars from investing in profitable tech stocks in recent years. The 84-year-old Democrat, who is recovering from emergency hip surgery after a fall, made history in 2007 as the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives,

Some shrewd investments are paying off bigtime for the congressional Democrat and her venture capitalist husband.

Nancy Pelosi sold Nvidia shares valued at millions right before their worth dropped sharply after the rise of Chinese AI company DeepSeek. On Monday, US semiconductor giant Nvidia saw its valuation fall by billions when investors discovered that the China-based start-up DeepSeek developed a competitor to ChatGPT for less than $6 million in just two months.