Stand With Jensen Petition Passes 100,000 Signatures

The Stand With Jensen petition passed 100,000 signatures on November 15, 2026, three days after Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO. The public signer list on the campaign site shows more than 83,000 names, and news reports through Saturday afternoon put the full count somewhere between 100,000 and 123,000. However you count it, a volunteer-run letter with no budget and no official backing is now one of the biggest public pressure campaigns a tech board has ever faced.

The numbers, as reported

The breakdown reported on November 14 gives you the shape of it: about 63,000 signers describing themselves as shareholders, roughly 5,965 as current Nvidia employees, about 1,108 as former employees, and the rest as supporters. Elon Musk sits at the top of the shareholder list. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, Y Combinator president Garry Tan, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke and Fundstrat's Tom Lee are all on it too.

Treat the exact figures with care. The campaign itself says affiliations are self-reported and not verified, and its team has been deleting fake and duplicate entries since November 14. The public list you can browse on the site is smaller than the headline total for that reason. The honest read: the real number is large, it grew very fast, and nobody outside the campaign can audit it precisely.

Why the petition query matters

Most people arriving here are not looking for commentary. They are looking for the petition itself: where it lives, whether it is real, and how to sign it. The short answers: it lives at standwithjensen.com, it is a genuine volunteer campaign that Nvidia has not endorsed, and signing is free and takes about a minute. Our homepage walks through how to sign the letter step by step, and the full background on who is behind the campaign is in our look at who has signed the letter.

The board is moving the other way

While the count climbed, reporting on November 15 pointed the other direction. Nvidia's board is said to be searching for a permanent successor, and one report says Arm CEO Rene Haas has been approached about the role. Nvidia has not confirmed either point. The board has also appointed the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to run the investigation into the claims around Huang's exit, which is the same investigation the petition wants made independent and public.

That is the real tension now. The letter asks the board to pause and reinstate Huang while the facts are established. A successor search, if the reports are right, says the board is treating the exit as final. Both things can move at once for a while, but not for long.

One fake to ignore

A separate letter spread online on November 14 claiming that senior Nvidia executives had demanded the board resign. Nvidia vice-president Bryan Catanzaro said publicly that it was fake. If you see screenshots of it, that is why. The only campaign account is @TheJensenLetter on X, and the only place to sign is the official site.

What to watch this week

Two dates decide the next phase. Nvidia reports earnings on November 17, the first since the resignation, and interim CEO Colette Kress addresses employees at an all-hands meeting on November 18. Watch the language around "leadership transition" in both. We map out the board math and the likely scenarios in what happens next, and the full sequence of events is in our timeline of why Jensen Huang resigned.

If the board names a successor before or during earnings week, the petition becomes a protest record rather than a live campaign. If it says nothing and the count keeps climbing past 150,000, the pressure story runs into December. Either way, the next move belongs to ten directors in Santa Clara, not to the signer list.