Jensen Huang petition: Musk says he is signing as Stand with Jensen reaches about 36,000 names

The Jensen Huang petition gathered pace on 13 November after Elon Musk wrote on X: “A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen and I’m signing it too,” Interesting Engineering reported. The campaign asks the board of Nvidia to bring back Jensen Huang, who stepped down as chief executive, president and board member on Thursday, Stocktwits reported. 1

What happened

Two efforts are circulating, and their counts come from different pages. Interesting Engineering said a Change.org petition titled “Bring [Jensen Huang] back as Nvidia CEO” was started on 12 November by Mohamed Adany, who describes himself as an Nvidia shareholder, and had 170 verified signatures on Friday evening. A separate “Stand with Jensen” page had about 36,000 signatures when Stocktwits wrote, with nearly 2,700 current Nvidia employees among the signers and more than 20,000 shareholders pledging support, according to the page’s tracker as Stocktwits described it. 2

Stocktwits named Musk, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee and Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke among the signers. Nvidia shares fell more than 2% in Friday’s regular session and over 1% further in after-hours trading, it said.

Inside the company, Business Today, citing Wired, reported that more than 1,600 employees sought Huang’s return on internal channels. A third item is a letter addressed to the board, which Wccftech reported names Ian Buck, Bill Dally and Bryan Catanzaro as signatories. Catanzaro wrote on X that the letter is fake. None of the reports reviewed carried a statement from Nvidia or Huang on the petitions. 3 4

Key numbers

• About 36,000: signatures on the “Stand with Jensen” page, including nearly 2,700 current Nvidia employees, per Stocktwits.
• 170: verified signatures on the Change.org petition on Friday evening, per Interesting Engineering.
• More than 1,600: employees who backed Huang on internal channels, according to Wired as relayed by Business Today.
• About 42,000: Nvidia’s employee count, per Wccftech.
• More than 2%: Nvidia’s fall in Friday’s regular session, per Stocktwits.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang return: how the exit unfolded

The campaign follows a fast sequence that we covered as it happened. Huang’s exit is in our report on his resignation and the interim chief, Colette Kress. Musk’s earlier reply that hiring Huang “would be an honor” is in our story on that remark, and the investor suit that preceded the exit is in our shareholder lawsuit report. The outcome matters well beyond one company, because Nvidia sits at the centre of the artificial intelligence chip supply chain.

What people said

Musk’s post is the only quote from a named petition signer in the reports reviewed. Wccftech said Replit CEO Amjad Masad and Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue also voiced support for Huang. Catanzaro, Nvidia’s VP of applied deep learning research, wrote: “This letter is obviously fake, and even if it were real I would not sign it.” He added that he is “grief-stricken that Jensen is no longer with NVIDIA”, while saying he fully supports the board and calling Kress an “extraordinary leader”, Wccftech reported.

What happens next

No date for a board decision has been reported. Business Today said some employees expect a board investigation to conclude before any major change, so the Jensen Huang petition may only matter once that review ends. Kress remains interim chief executive for now, per Stocktwits.