Who Has Signed the Stand With Jensen Letter

Big names, staff and shareholders on one list

The Stand With Jensen letter passed 64,000 signatures on November 14, 2026, two days after Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO. The count alone is striking. The mix behind it is the real story. The list runs from Elon Musk down to first-week Nvidia engineers, and it includes thousands of the company's own shareholders. Here is who has signed, who has backed the letter in public, and how much weight each group actually carries.

The headline names

Elon Musk gave the campaign its biggest push. Replying to a post calling for Huang's reinstatement, the Tesla CEO wrote that a petition was underway to reinstate Jensen and that he was signing it too. Musk's name on a list does not change Nvidia's board math, but it changed the letter's reach overnight. News coverage from TradingView's wire, the Times of India and others led with his signature.

Tom Lee, the Fundstrat strategist and Bitmine chairman, signed as well. His presence matters for a different reason. Lee speaks to the investor crowd, and his signature signals that at least part of Wall Street sees the sudden exit as a process problem, not just a personal one.

Tobi Lutke, Shopify's CEO, is another founder-operator on the list. Founder-CEOs tend to read a board removing a founder very personally, and several of the public backers fit that profile.

The tech founders and CEOs

Tim Sweeney, who built Epic Games, kept it short: "I stand with Jensen." He argued that Huang built an unusually innovative company and that removing him hurts America's technology leadership. Lex Fridman, the podcaster and AI researcher, wrote the longest public defence. He compared the exit to Apple parting ways with Steve Jobs in 1985, said he was in shock at the speed of it, and closed with "I stand with Jensen."

Garry Tan of Y Combinator, Amjad Masad of Replit and Aidan Gomez of Cohere have also backed the return call publicly. Investor Gavin Baker amplified the campaign and noted the signing page was straining under traffic and needed a server upgrade. That detail lines up with what ordinary visitors saw: at peak moments the form showed a "too many submissions, please try again" error.

Nvidia's own people

The campaign's live counter breaks the total into groups. On November 14 it showed roughly 2,980 current Nvidia employees, 454 former employees and 24,097 shareholders, with the remaining 15,000-plus signing as supporters. Read those numbers with care. The site itself says affiliations are self-reported and unverified, and the team has been deleting fake entries. Even discounted, though, the employee number is hard to wave away. Nvidia has about 42,000 staff. If even a solid share of those near-3,000 employee signatures are real, a meaningful slice of the workforce put its name on a letter against its own board's decision.

Reporting from inside the company backs that picture. An internal employee forum drew more than 1,600 comments after the resignation. Many supported Huang's return and questioned whether the board had shown its work. One staffer reportedly emailed the whole company demanding transparency. Another wrote that everyone is human, that people make mistakes, and that Jensen deserved a second chance.

Why shareholders signing matters

Shareholders cannot vote a CEO back into the job. The board decides. But 24,000 self-described shareholders is still a number a board notices, because boards answer to investors at election time and because Nvidia's stock dropped on the news. Shares fell more than 2 percent on the Friday session after the resignation and lost more ground after hours. A loud, organised holder base gives the letter a second channel of pressure beyond headlines.

If you are one of the people who came here to add your name, the only place to do it is the official campaign site. Our homepage has the step-by-step signing walkthrough, including how the affiliation options work.

What the list does not prove

A long signature list proves energy, not facts. It does not prove the board acted wrongly, and it does not clear anyone of anything. The letter itself is careful on this point. It asks for an independent investigation with a disclosed scope and timeline, and for Huang to get a fair chance to respond. Several signers say the same thing in their own words: process first, verdict second.

It is also worth knowing who is not on the list, at least publicly. No Nvidia board member has signed. No statement of support has come from the company. Colette Kress, the interim CEO, has not commented on the campaign. The silence is expected, but it means the letter's next test is not more signatures. It is whether the board says anything at all around the November 17 earnings report, which we cover in what happens next.

How the count has moved

The petition was already past 14,000 signatures early on November 14, Beijing time, when Musk's post landed. By the time Indian and US outlets picked it up, the count was reported at 36,000, then past 40,000, then 57,000 in later coverage, and the site counter itself showed more than 64,000 by Saturday. Growth that fast, on a volunteer-run site, explains both the server strain and the fake-signature clean-up the team announced the same day.

One last caution. The campaign's only official account on X is @TheJensenLetter. Impersonator accounts appeared within a day of the launch, and the team has warned supporters not to trust them. If you want the background on how Nvidia got here, read our timeline of the resignation and the claims behind it.