Stand with Jensen

On November 8, 2026, the NVIDIA Board of Directors issued a statement saying that it was initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and chief executive Jensen Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort, and that a committee of independent directors, assisted by outside independent counsel, would oversee the investigation.⁠[1][2]

On November 11, 2026, the NVIDIA Board accepted the resignation of Jensen Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang) as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board, effective immediately. The Board appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Colette KressColette KressColette Kress is an American business executive who has been executive vice president and chief financial officer of NVIDIA since September 2013 and, since November 2026, also its interim chief executive officer following the resignation of Jensen Huang; she previously held finance positions at Texas Instruments, Microsoft and Cisco.Open the full entry as interim chief executive while it searches for a permanent successor, with her remaining CFO, and on the same day appointed Harvey C. JonesHarvey C. JonesHarvey C. Jones is an American entrepreneur and investor in electronic design automation who co-founded Daisy Systems in 1981, led Synopsys from 1987 to 1998 and co-founded Tensilica in 1997. An NVIDIA director since 1993, he became NVIDIA’s first-ever chair of the board on November 11, 2026.Open the full entry, a director since 1993, as Chair of the Board. The company disclosed these changes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is the federal securities regulator of the United States. Created during the Great Depression by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and led by five commissioners, it has a three-part mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation.Open the full entry on a Form 8-K signed on November 12.⁠[3]

On November 12, 2026, NVIDIA announced the transition in a press release titled “NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition”. It said that Harvey C. Jones was the company’s first Chair of the Board, that the Board would consider internal and external candidates for a permanent chief executive, and that the company would report its third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on November 17.⁠[4][2]

At 12:28 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13, 2026, the X account @TheJensenLetter (display name “Stand With Jensen”), which the site links to, published a pinned post with the address standwithjensen.com that read: “I signed this open letter to stand with Jensen. Hope you will too.”⁠[5][6]

At 1:53 p.m. Pacific Time the same day, Gavin BakerGavin BakerGavin Baker is an American investor who founded the Boston investment manager Atreides Management in 2019 and serves as its managing partner and chief investment officer. He worked at Fidelity Investments from 1999 to 2017 and managed the Fidelity OTC Portfolio from 2009 to 2017.Open the full entry, managing partner and chief investment officer of Atreides ManagementAtreides ManagementAtreides Management (Atreides Management, LP) is an investment management firm based in Boston, founded in 2019 by former Fidelity portfolio manager Gavin Baker. It follows a crossover strategy, investing in high-growth technology and consumer companies in both public and private markets.Open the full entry, posted on X: “The standwithjensen.com/#letter is currently overwhelmed with requests to sign it.” He added that the servers needed an upgrade.⁠[7][8][2]

At 00:57 UTC on November 14, 2026 (4:57 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13), the crypto outlet TechFlow published a news flash saying that supporters of Jensen Huang had launched the petition site “Stand with Jensen” to express gratitude to the NVIDIA Board through an open letter and to demand transparent details about the CEO succession. Flashes from TechFlow and ChainCatcher also wrote that ReplitReplitReplit is a software development platform co-founded by Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh, offering browser-based programming, collaboration, application deployment and AI agents. Its early products supported online programming and education before expanding into creating, running and publishing applications through natural language. Incorporated in 2016, the company is headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.Open the full entry chief executive Amjad MasadAmjad MasadAmjad Masad is a Jordanian-American software engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Replit. He worked on developer tools at Codecademy and Facebook, founded the company Replit in 2016, and led its development from a browser-based programming environment into a platform for creating AI applications.Open the full entry had reposted the call for signatures on X and said he had helped the site increase its capacity to handle traffic.⁠[9][10]

On November 13, 2026, Elon MuskElon MuskElon Musk is an entrepreneur who founded SpaceX and has long served as chief executive of Tesla; he also took part in creating PayPal, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and xAI. He acquired Twitter in 2022, and his businesses span spaceflight, electric vehicles, energy, artificial intelligence, and social media.Open the full entry signed the open letter: at 12:51 p.m. Pacific Time he wrote on X, in a reply to another user, “A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen and I’m signing it too”; the site’s public signer list, ordered with the organizers’ priorities first, shows “Elon Musk” at the top (self-entered as “Space X TeslaTeslaTesla is an American electric vehicle and energy company whose businesses span automobiles, solar energy, and battery energy storage. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, its shares are listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TSLA.Open the full entry CEO”, shareholder), and the campaign’s official X account @TheJensenLetter also reposted a post quoting his. News flashes from TechFlow, ChainCatcher and ABAB NewsABAB NewsABAB News is a multilingual news and research platform that launched on November 1, 2025, covering blockchain, digital assets, financial markets, artificial intelligence, technology companies, and venture capital. It publishes news briefs, roundups of public commentary, and in-depth articles in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English, and offers an iOS app.Open the full entry also wrote that the site’s public signer list included Musk.⁠[11][6][12][9][10][2]

The post that @TheJensenLetter reposted was Pierre Ferragu’s, which quoted Musk’s post at 1:08 p.m. the same day with the words “Happy to sign it!”; the account quoted it at 6:45 p.m. with the hashtags #standwithjensen and #bringjensenback and the address standwithjensen.com.⁠[13][12]

An ABAB News flash published at 00:50 UTC on November 14, 2026, wrote that the site showed more than 10,000 live public signatures. A TechFlow flash at 00:57 UTC wrote that the site had more than 11,000 signatures, including 1,652 self-identified current NVIDIA employees, 172 former employees and 6,562 shareholders, plus other groups such as partners; a ChainCatcher flash that day gave the same figures. Both flashes stated that signers enter their own identities and that the site does not verify them.⁠[2][9][10]

A TechFlow flash at 02:12 UTC on November 14, 2026 (6:12 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13), wrote that total signatures had passed 20,000, including 2,107 self-identified current NVIDIA employees, 267 former employees and 12,406 shareholders; a ChainCatcher flash that day gave the same figures.⁠[14][15]

The two flashes also wrote that the list contained an entry signed “Yiming Zhang (ByteDance)” with the message “Stand with Jensen” (which the flashes suggested might be ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming), an entry signed “Yi HeYi HeYi He is a Chinese entrepreneur and the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Binance. She helped found OKCoin and served as vice president of Yixia Technology, joined Binance in 2017 to take charge of business, brand, and operations, and has also led Binance Labs.Open the full entry” describing herself as co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Binance, and the names Marc AndreessenMarc AndreessenMarc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While in college he helped develop the graphical web browser Mosaic, then co-founded Netscape and Loudcloud (later renamed Opsware), and has long served as a director of Meta; he has also published essays such as “Why Software Is Eating the World.”Open the full entry, Tim SweeneyTim SweeneyTim Sweeney is an American video game developer and entrepreneur who founded Epic Games in 1991 and serves as its CEO, led the writing of the Unreal Engine, and is known for large-scale land purchases for nature conservation in North Carolina.Open the full entry, Garry TanGarry TanGarry Tan is a Canadian-born ethnically Chinese technology entrepreneur, product design and engineering practitioner, and venture capitalist who currently serves as president, CEO, and general partner of Y Combinator. He worked on early product and engineering at Palantir, co-founded Posterous, Posthaven, and Initialized Capital, led early investments in companies including Coinbase, and has long been involved in San Francisco local public affairs.Open the full entry, Nikesh AroraNikesh AroraNikesh Arora is the chairman and chief executive officer of Palo Alto Networks. He previously served as chief business officer of Google and as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank, and his career spans investment, mobile telecommunications, internet business operations, and cybersecurity.Open the full entry and Aidan Gomez, among others. The flashes noted that these identities were entered by the signers themselves, that the site had not verified them, and that none of the people named had publicly confirmed signing at the time of publication. They also wrote that Yi He had earlier reposted Musk’s X post supporting Jensen Huang.⁠[14][15]

At 7:05 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13, 2026, Tom Lee (X account @fundstrat) quoted Gavin Baker’s post about the overloaded site and wrote: “I signed the letter standwithjensen.com”. @TheJensenLetter then quoted his post.⁠[16]

At 8:38 p.m. the same day, Y Combinator chief executive Garry Tan wrote on X: “Jensen deserves due process, not whatever is happening right now. I signed.”, with the hashtag #standwithjensen; @TheJensenLetter quoted the post to thank him.⁠[17][15]

MagoTalk’s website announced on November 13, 2026, that MagoTalk founder MagoMagoMago is an investor, founder and host of MagoTalk, author of books on technology and finance, and founder of ABAB News and a series of related products, using the X account @magotalk. His public content covers Web3, artificial intelligence, and finance. He is the author of “Money Code” and “AI is eating the world.”Open the full entry had signed the Stand with Jensen letter that day under his own name, quoting the X post in which he announced it: “Jensen Huang is an indispensable and irreplaceable leader in the AI industry. I’m proud to stand with him.”⁠[18]

At 8:28 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13, 2026, @TheJensenLetter posted: “We're actively working to remove fake entries and prevent trolls from abusing our page.” The post added that this was the page’s only X account and asked readers not to trust other accounts claiming to represent it.⁠[19]

At 10:57 p.m. Pacific Time on November 13, 2026, the site’s “NAMES ON THE LETTER” counter showed 60,090 names: 3,796 self-identified current NVIDIA employees, 620 former employees, 33,094 shareholders and 22,580 supporters, with a note that the counter refreshes every 30 seconds. At 11:00 p.m., the signer list showed 40,347 public signers across 404 pages.⁠[6]

The site’s home page carries the lines “Thirty-three years deserve an answer.” and “Bring Jensen Back”, and calls on the NVIDIA Board to bring Jensen Huang back pending an independent investigation and clear evidence that his removal serves the company.⁠[6]

Under “WHAT IS CONFIRMED”, the site states that on November 12, 2026, NVIDIA announced that Jensen Huang had resigned as chief executive, effective immediately, ending 33 years leading the company he co-founded. Under “WHAT THIS CAMPAIGN BELIEVES”, it states that organizers and signers are concerned he may have been forced out without due process and without even a few days to make his case, and that they are therefore asking the Board to explain.⁠[6]

The letter, headed “An open letter to the NVIDIA Board of Directors”, has four parts: “Gratitude”, “Concern about fairness”, “Three demands” and “A timely public answer”. It opens by describing the signers as current and former NVIDIA employees, partners, shareholders and supporters, thanks Jensen Huang, and asks the Board to bring him back while an independent investigation establishes the facts, unless and until it can provide compelling evidence that his removal is in NVIDIA’s best interests.⁠[6]

On fairness, the letter says the signers understand that an outside investigation has been announced but has not concluded, that they are concerned Jensen Huang was removed without meaningful due process, and that they do not have access to the Board’s private deliberations.⁠[6]

The letter’s three demands are: “Reinstate Jensen as CEO.” “Ensure an independent investigation and a fair hearing.” “Provide a timely public explanation.”⁠[6]

The letter closes: “Jensen deserves due process, not mob justice.” It states that it is signed by the current employees, former employees and shareholders listed, each speaking for themselves.⁠[6]

The site has sections for the letter, supporters, press, contacting the organizers, privacy and signing, and is offered in 15 languages: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Italian, Finnish, Japanese and Armenian. The page does not print the organizers’ names; its footer describes it as “An independent, volunteer campaign.”⁠[6]

The signer list shows signers prioritized by the campaign organizers first and the rest newest first, and notes that affiliations are supplied by the signers themselves and not verified and that statements are the signers’ own views. Signers are counted in four groups: current NVIDIA employees, former employees, shareholders and supporters.⁠[6]

The site uses the hashtags #standwithjensen and #bringjensenback and links to the NVIDIA newsroom announcement of the CEO transition.⁠[6]

ABAB News, summarising WIRED, wrote that before Jensen Huang’s resignation a senior NVIDIA engineer posted in the company’s internal “suggestion box” urging the Board to consider employees’ views before acting; the post drew more than 1,600 comments, most supporting Huang’s return, and about two dozen employees voiced support publicly on LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry.⁠[2]

Interesting Engineering wrote on November 13, 2026, that a Change.org petition titled “Bring Jensen Huang back as Nvidia CEO” appeared on November 12, started by Mohamed Adany, who identifies himself as an NVIDIA shareholder, and that it had collected 170 verified signatures by the evening of Friday, November 13.⁠[20]

The same day, another letter to the NVIDIA Board circulated online asking for Jensen Huang’s reinstatement and naming several senior NVIDIA leaders as signatories. Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA’s vice president of applied deep learning research, who was listed among them, said publicly: “This letter is obviously fake, and even if it were real I would not sign it.”⁠[21][2]

ABAB News wrote in a flash on November 14, 2026 (UTC), that Brad Gerstner, chief executive of Altimeter CapitalAltimeter CapitalAltimeter Capital is a US technology investment firm founded by Brad Gerstner in 2008, investing through public and private market funds. Its legal entity is Altimeter Capital Management, LP, with offices in Menlo Park and Boston. Disclosed investments include Snowflake financing, Grab’s listing transaction and AI company financing.Open the full entry Management, and Gavin Baker, managing partner and chief investment officer of Atreides Management, wrote jointly to the NVIDIA Board as shareholders, asking for a slow and deliberate process on future leadership that kept all options open, including Jensen Huang’s return, and saying that Colette Kress and her team could lead in the interim. Gerstner published the letter on X, calling it the minimum acceptable standard the Board owes shareholders; Baker, reposting it, said he supported the petition to reinstate Huang immediately pending the independent investigation, while seeing the letter as a constructive starting point for dialogue with the Board.⁠[8]

Stand with Jensen: Official website: https://standwithjensen.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[6]

X: Public account: https://x.com/TheJensenLetter (opens in a new window).⁠[6][19]