Nvidia Employees Petition Board to Reinstate Jensen Huang

Eighty-eight percent of 232 Nvidia employees polled on the workplace app Blind on November 9 and 10 said Jensen Huang should remain CEO, with 11% backing a voluntary resignation and 1% supporting removal by the board, Wired reported. The survey closed before The New York Times reported on November 11 that Huang had also had a relationship with a senior executive reporting to him, and before his resignation took effect on November 12.

Internal pressure has kept building since.

More than 1,600 comments piled up on an internal Nvidia suggestion-box post urging the board to bring Jensen Huang back. "If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss," one anonymous employee wrote. About two dozen staffers went public on LinkedIn backing their former boss, an unusually loud break from Nvidia's normally tight external voice.

The in-house numbers run well ahead of outside sentiment. A broader Blind poll of 1,689 professionals showed 60% support for Huang remaining CEO, 18% favoring a voluntary exit, and 22% wanting the board to remove him. External pressure is building in its own channel: Lauren Cassidy, chief investment officer of the Founders 100 ETF, has publicly called for Huang's reinstatement, arguing his leadership is central to the chipmaker's value.

This reinstatement push is the latest beat in our ongoing Huang coverage this week, which already runs from the formal board decision through a Senate Banking summons issued the same day.