“He needs a second chance” Nvidia employees are reportedly petitioning to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO

Following a bombshell announcement yesterday, Jensen Huang is no longer the CEO of Nvidia, but it seems that many Nvidia employees were not ready to let go of their long-time boss. Reports of a post in Nvidia’s internal forums reveal much support for Huang from before and after his resignation. The post, which was reportedly live before the CEO transition, attracted more than 1,600 comments.

These reports come from Wired, based on internal sources. The publication notes that a “longtime engineer at Nvidia” set up the “suggestion box” post to urge the Nvidia board to take into account employee sentiment, and several members have reportedly been asking for ways to reinstate Huang as CEO. “I stand by Jensen,” one employee writes. As it stands, Colette Kress is serving as the Interim CEO for the company.

Jensen Huang’s resignation saga so far

Huang’s resignation comes following a whirlwind week at the company, with the former boss sending out a company email on Sunday to confirm reports of an extramarital relationship, which he admits he had “no excuse” for. The relationship involved a suspected Chinese spy, and further allegations have been made of another affair involving an Nvidia executive who reported directly to Huang.

“We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance,” wrote one Nvidia staff member, as per Wired’s report. “If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss,” another wrote. Speaking directly to Wired, one employee said “Nvidia is Nvidia because of Jensen”. The support doesn’t stop within Nvidia, either, as Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney publicly supported Huang prior to the resignation, while Elon Musk expressed he’d be happy to hire Huang.

Before his resignation, Huang had served as the company’s CEO since co-founding it back in 1993, leading Nvidia to become the biggest name in gaming GPUs and, more recently, AI hardware. Nvidia introduced the GeForce brand in 1999, and the next major era came with CUDA in 2006, with the company recently celebrating “20 Years of a Legend” for its first CUDA-capable GPU, the GeForce 8800 GTX. Nvidia’s biggest transformation came with the AI boom, and it now calls itself an “AI data center infrastructure company” – gaming is still a key focus, however.

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