Stand With Jensen _ Petition Website, Sign the Letter
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Stand With Jensen is an open letter to Nvidia's board of directors. It asks the board to bring Jensen Huang back as CEO while an independent investigation looks into the claims around his exit. Huang resigned on November 12, 2026, after 33 years running the company he co-founded. The letter is run by volunteers, not by Nvidia and not by Huang himself. You sign it on the official campaign website, standwithjensen.com, and nowhere else. That is the only real signing page.
By Saturday, November 14, the counter on the site had passed 64,000 names, and on November 15 the total passed 100,000 signatures, with more than 83,000 names visible on the public signer list. The names include current Nvidia staff, former staff, shareholders and a long list of well-known tech figures. If you want the short version first: the petition is real, it is free, it takes about a minute to sign, and this page walks you through what it says, who is behind the numbers, and what happens next.
Quick facts
- What it is: a volunteer-run open letter and petition to Nvidia's board
- The ask: reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO pending an independent investigation
- Resignation date: November 12, 2026, effective immediately
- Interim CEO: Colette Kress, Nvidia's chief financial officer
- Signatures: more than 100,000 as of November 15, 2026
- Where to sign: the official site, standwithjensen.com
- Official campaign account: @TheJensenLetter on X, the only one
- Next big date: Nvidia earnings on November 17, 2026, then an employee all-hands on November 18
What happened at Nvidia
Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia's chief executive, president and board member on November 12, 2026. The resignation took effect at once. In a statement days earlier, on November 8, Huang had acknowledged a personal relationship outside his marriage. News reports since then say US intelligence officials suspect the woman involved of links to Chinese intelligence. That suspicion is an allegation reported by news outlets. It has not been proven in public, Huang has denied any espionage connection, and no public evidence has been released. Keep that line clear in your head, because a lot of loud posts online blur it.
The board moved fast. Colette Kress, the company's long-serving finance chief, took over as interim CEO while the board looks for a permanent successor. Nvidia's shares fell more than 2 percent in the first regular session after the news and slipped again after hours. For a company that sits at the center of the AI build-out, losing its founder-CEO with no transition period is a big deal, and the reaction from staff and investors started within hours.
What the letter actually asks for
The open letter is firm in tone but narrow in its demands. It makes three of them. First, bring Huang back as CEO, or publicly explain why his absence is necessary, while the facts are established. Second, run a genuinely independent investigation, with a disclosed scope and a clear timeline, and give Huang a fair chance to respond before any final decision. Third, set out the board's reasoning in public once the decision is made.
The letter's core line is about process, not about declaring anyone innocent. It argues that 33 years of leadership do not place a person above accountability, and that accountability still needs evidence, a hearing and a reasoned decision. You can read the full text, and the breakdown of who has signed, in our rundown of the names on the letter so far.
Who has signed
The counter splits signers into groups, and the campaign is open that these are self-reported and unverified. As of November 14 it listed roughly 2,980 current Nvidia employees, 454 former employees and 24,097 shareholders, with the rest signing as supporters. The public names are the eye-catching part. Elon Musk posted that a petition was underway to reinstate Jensen and that he was signing it too. Fundstrat's Tom Lee signed, as did Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney wrote "I stand with Jensen" in a public post. Podcaster Lex Fridman compared the exit to Apple parting with Steve Jobs in 1985 and called it a huge mistake. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, Replit CEO Amjad Masad and Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez also backed the call publicly.
Inside Nvidia, reporting describes an internal forum with more than 1,600 comments, many of them asking for transparency about how the decision was made. Some staff wrote that everyone is human and that Huang deserves a second chance. Others simply want the evidence question answered.
How to sign, step by step
- Go to standwithjensen.com. Type the address yourself rather than tapping a random link in a repost.
- Read the letter first. The site has a "read it first" option for a reason.
- Open the sign form and add your name. You can pick how you describe yourself: current employee, former employee, shareholder or supporter.
- You can add a short public message if you want to. Keep it clean and on-topic, because organisers review new entries.
- Submit once. The site has been under heavy load, and some visitors saw a "too many submissions, try again shortly" message. Wait a bit and try again rather than submitting five times.
Signing costs nothing. The campaign does not ask for payment, card details or downloads, and any page that does is not the real one.
Watch out for fakes
On November 14 the campaign posted a security notice. The team said it is removing fake signatures and taking steps to stop people abusing the sign-up page. It also warned supporters about impersonator accounts. The campaign has exactly one official account on X, @TheJensenLetter. Any other account claiming to speak for the campaign is not them.
The same caution applies to copycat pages. A fast-moving story like this one pulls in fake petition pages, fake apps and crypto bait within a day. The background to the story, including the November 8 statement and the exact sequence of events, is laid out in our timeline of why Jensen Huang resigned. If a page asks you to pay to sign, install something, or connect a wallet, close it.
What happens next
A petition does not hire or fire a CEO. Nvidia's board does, and shareholders do not get a direct vote on this. After Huang's exit, ten board members remain, and supporters inside the company have pointed out that it would take six of those ten to move toward bringing him back. That math is why the letter is aimed at the board, and why it asks for a public explanation as the minimum outcome.
The calendar matters too. Nvidia reports earnings on November 17, and Colette Kress is set to address employees at an all-hands meeting the following morning, November 18. Both are natural pressure points where the board's position may become clearer. We break down the board math, the earnings call and the likely scenarios in what happens next for Nvidia and the petition.
Common questions
Is Stand With Jensen run by Nvidia?
No. It is an independent, volunteer-run campaign. It is not endorsed by Nvidia or by Jensen Huang, and the site says so itself.
Does signing the petition guarantee Huang returns?
No. The board makes the decision. The letter is public pressure and a request for a fair process, nothing more.
Are the signature counts verified?
No. Affiliations are self-reported. The organisers remove obvious fakes, but treat the exact split between employees, shareholders and supporters as indicative, not audited.
Did Huang admit to spying?
No. He acknowledged a personal relationship. The intelligence suspicion reported in the press concerns the other person, it remains an allegation, and Huang has denied any espionage involvement.
Who is running Nvidia now?
Colette Kress, the chief financial officer, is interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor.
The bottom line
Two things are true at once. A founder who built one of the world's most valuable companies left in a sudden and messy way, and the claims swirling around that exit are serious and unproven. The Stand With Jensen letter sits right on that line. It does not ask you to decide what happened. It asks the board to slow down, investigate in the open, and explain itself. If that sounds fair to you, the signing page is on the official site, and it takes a minute.
Liam O'Connor
Original Post
He’s the one
We demand answers about how the word "spy" originated in this case. As of today, there is absolutely no proof that she was a spy. Yet the entire world has heard about the so-called Chinese spy, Alice Huang. Who started this allegation, and where did it come from?
Selbst wenn er mit Alice Huang einen Fehler begangen hat, was nicht eindeutig erwiesen ist, so ist es absoluter Irrsinn jemanden der ein Unternehmen von der Pike aufgebaut hat zu entlassen. Die Firma ist sein Baby. Man darf Ihm sein Baby nicht wegnehmen. Man hat das schon mal mit Jobs gemacht und man hat ihn zurückgenommen. Lernen die Menschen denn gar nichts? Ohne Jensen fehlt das Arbeitstier, der Visionär, es gehen Beziehungen zu Politik und Wirtschaft verloren, die über Jahrzehnte aufgebaut wurden. Die Affären sind eine private Angelegenheit, dafür muss man keine Karriere kaputt machen, daß muß in der Familie geklärt werden. Und, erfolgreiche, berühmte und reiche Männer waren schon immer von Frauen begehrt, das ist nichts Neues und wird sich auch nicht ändern, wir sollten eher diese Realität akzeptieren und nicht heuchlerisch, die Moralapostel spielen. JENSEN MUSS BLEIBEN!!! Dixi
Even if he made a mistake with Alice Huang—which hasn’t been conclusively proven—it’s absolute madness to fire someone who built a company from the ground up. The company is his baby. You can’t take his baby away from him. They did that to Jobs once, and they took him back. Don’t people ever learn anything? Without Jensen, the company loses its workhorse and visionary, and it will lose the political and business connections that have been built up over decades. The affairs are a private matter; you don’t have to ruin a career over them—that’s something that needs to be worked out within the family. And successful, famous, and rich men have always been sought after by women—that’s nothing new and it’s not going to change. We should accept this reality rather than hypocritically playing the moralists. JENSEN MUST STAY!!! Dixi
I admire Jensen Huang. He is amazing. Back in 2023, I believed that NVIDIA, under his leadership, would be the most important company in the AI revolution era. He is a core force driving humanity’s transition from the information society to an artificial intelligence society. He may even be the one who unlocks the door to a silicon-based civilization. Without him, NVIDIA would lose its soul and would not be able to advance the times or build a better future for humanity as effectively.