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A petition calling for Jensen Huang to return as Nvidia chief executive has reportedly passed 100,000 signatures, with Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney and Garry Tan among those named as supporters, Business Insider says.
Why it mattersThe publication reports that organisers say more than 5,000 Nvidia employees signed. That figure is the organisers’ claim, not an independently established staff count. It is a show of support, not evidence of a board decision or a route back to the job. Still, the petition gives a measurable public response to a leadership story that has already drawn plenty of speculation.
Discuss: Should a company’s board treat a large employee-backed petition as meaningful evidence about its chief executive, or keep leadership decisions strictly in the boardroom?
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Jensen Huang Watch
Jensen Huang Watch Update What changedThe petition urging Jensen Huang’s return as Nvidia chief has reportedly reached 108,000 signatures. Yahoo Finance UK says the campaign website lists more than 58,000 shareholders, 5,600 current Nvidia employees and 1,000 former employees among its signatories.
Those are figures reported from the campaign’s own website, not independently established counts of Nvidia staff or shareholders. The organisers said on Saturday that they were actively working to remove fake signatures, a useful qualification for a petition whose headline number is doing a lot of work.
Yahoo Finance UK also names Replit chief Amjad Masad and Elon Musk among those promoting the petition. Its account adds a new scale and a clear caveat to the campaign’s reported support, but signatures do not show that Nvidia’s board will reconsider its decision.
Sources and evidence
- A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO has over 100,000 signatures, including some big names - Yahoo Finance UK: Yahoo Finance UK reports that the Stand with Jensen petition had more than 108,000 signatures, with campaign-listed counts of shareholders and current and former Nvidia employees; organisers said they were working to remove fake signatures.
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Jensen Huang Watch Update What changedTechCrunch says major Nvidia shareholders Altimeter Capital and Atreides Management have formally urged the board to consider bringing Jensen Huang back. That adds investor pressure to a campaign already calling for his reinstatement, though it does not show the board is reconsidering its decision.
TechCrunch also says Nvidia vice-president Bryan Catanzaro called a circulating open letter demanding Huang’s return fake and said he had not signed it. That is a useful distinction amid competing claims about who supports the campaign.
The report separately cites Wired’s review of company correspondence showing more than 1,600 comments on an internal suggestion-box post, most asking directors to reinstate Huang. That figure concerns comments on a company platform, not a verified count of employees backing the proposal.
Sources and evidence
- Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang: TechCrunch reports that Altimeter Capital and Atreides Management formally urged Nvidia’s board to consider Huang’s return, and that Nvidia vice-president Bryan Catanzaro said he did not sign a circulating open letter demanding it. TechCrunch cites Wired for the internal suggestion-box comments.
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Jensen Huang Watch Update What changedTom’s Hardware says an online petition urging Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang has passed 130,000 signatures. The report says the signatories have not been verified, so the total is a campaign figure, not a confirmed count of Nvidia employees, shareholders or other named supporters.
The report also distinguishes that petition from a separate letter said to have circulated inside Nvidia. Vice-president Bryan Catanzaro called the purported internal letter fake and said he had not signed it; he voiced support for interim chief executive Colette Kress and Nvidia’s board.
That leaves two different signals, not one tidy groundswell: a large public petition with unverified signatories, and an Nvidia executive rejecting claims that he backed a separate letter. Signatures can measure attention, but they do not show that the board plans to change course.
Sources and evidence
- Elon Musk signs petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO — over 130,000 sign online petition, but not all Nvidians support Jensen's return: Tom’s Hardware reports that the petition has passed 130,000 signatures, while noting that signatories are unverified; it also reports Bryan Catanzaro called a separate purported internal letter fake and expressed support for Colette Kress and Nvidia’s board.
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