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Nvidia Staff Push for Jensen Huang’s Return, but Viral ‘Hundreds Signed’ Letter Is Unverified

An internal suggestion-box post has drawn more than 1,600 comments, WIRED reported. A letter shared on X claiming mass signatures has not been confirmed and closely copies OpenAI's 2023 staff letter.

By Tumisang Bogwasi November 13, 2026 6 min read

Jensen Huang speaks at a Stanford Graduate School of Business discussion on 9 April 2026, when he was Nvidia's chief executive (file). Photo: Anders Eidesvik / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang to return as chief executive, hours after the board announced he had resigned, according to internal correspondence reviewed by WIRED.

A separate claim spreading on X, that hundreds of staff have signed a letter demanding his reinstatement and the board’s resignation, has not been confirmed, and the letter shared with it closely copies one written by OpenAI employees in 2023.

Highlights

An internal Nvidia suggestion-box post has drawn more than 1,600 comments, many urging Jensen Huang’s return, WIRED reported.
A viral X post claiming hundreds of Nvidia employees signed a letter demanding his reinstatement has not been confirmed.
The shared letter repeats whole sentences from the OpenAI staff letter of November 2023, with Elon Musk in Microsoft’s place.
The letter says the board terminated Huang, while Nvidia announced on 12 November that he had resigned.

What WIRED reported

A longtime Nvidia engineer submitted a post to the company’s internal suggestion box before Huang resigned, urging the board to take employee sentiment into account before acting, WIRED reported on Thursday evening, US time. The post called on the board to share its findings with staff and to seek their views “about Jensen’s continuing as our CEO”.

It has since drawn more than 1,600 comments, several asking board members to find a way to bring him back.

“If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss,” one anonymous commenter wrote, according to WIRED. Another wrote: “We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance.”

One employee sent a companywide email demanding transparency about Huang’s exit. “I stand by Jensen,” the staffer wrote, WIRED reported. In the hours after the resignation, about two dozen employees posted messages of support for Huang on LinkedIn, and WIRED said it could not find any posts from Nvidia employees supporting his departure.

The engineer behind the suggestion-box post declined to comment, and Nvidia and its new board chair, Harvey Jones, did not immediately respond to WIRED’s requests for comment.

None of this reporting describes a signed demand, a threat of mass resignation or any link to SpaceX. Nvidia has about 42,000 employees, The Verge noted.

The viral letter

In the early hours of Friday, 13 November, at 06:07 Botswana time, an X account posted: “BREAKING: hundreds of NVIDIA employees have signed an internal letter demanding the reinstatement of Jensen Huang as CEO and the resignation of the board”.

The post, which had been viewed about 1.8 million times by Friday evening, included an image of a letter addressed “To the Board of Directors at NVIDIA”.

The letter threatens that signers “may choose to resign from NVIDIA and join the SpaceX Terafab initiative under the leadership of Jensen Huang and Elon Musk”, and says they will do so “unless all current board members resign, the board appoints new independent directors, and reinstates Jensen Huang as Chief Executive Officer.” It ends with a short numbered list of names, not hundreds of signatures.

Brimco is not publishing those names because nothing shows that the people listed wrote or signed the letter.

The account has not said where the letter came from, TalkEsport reported.

About seven hours before sharing it, the same account had posted that “Jensen can still win if he plays it like Sam did with the OpenAI coup”, setting out a sequence in which Elon Musk offers Huang work on Terafab and jobs to Nvidia staff, and employees threaten to follow him.

X now shows a reader note on the viral post saying no reports confirm such a letter, according to TalkEsport, and the fact-checking site FactCheckRadar rated the claim unverified.

Line for line with OpenAI’s 2023 letter

In November 2023, after OpenAI’s board removed Sam Altman as chief executive, most of the company’s staff signed a letter threatening to follow him to Microsoft unless the board resigned. Altman returned within days. The text of the letter circulating about Nvidia follows that document almost sentence by sentence, changing the company, the people and the rival employer.

OpenAI, 2023: “The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company.” The Nvidia version: “The process through which you terminated Jensen Huang has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company.”
OpenAI: “Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI.” The Nvidia version: “Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee NVIDIA.”
Both letters say the leadership team “increasingly realized you were not capable of carrying out your duties, and were negotiating in bad faith.”
OpenAI: “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join.” The Nvidia version: “Elon Musk has assured us that there are positions for all NVIDIA employees at SpaceX and Terafab should we choose to join.”

Where the letter departs from the record

The letter says the board “terminated” Huang. Nvidia’s announcement and its Form 8-K filing say he resigned as president, chief executive and director, effective immediately. Chief financial officer Colette Kress is interim CEO, and Jones has become the company’s first board chair.

The letter also says Musk has promised positions for all Nvidia employees. Brimco found no such statement from Musk or SpaceX, and TalkEsport said the same. Musk’s public comment on hiring Huang was a five-word reply on X that doing so “would be an honor”, posted hours before the resignation, with no role or company named.

Why it matters for Nvidia

The genuine staff reaction points to a corporate governance test for the new leadership. Many employees had expected the board’s independent investigation to finish before any big change, WIRED reported, but Huang left as the inquiry was beginning. One employee told WIRED: “Nvidia is Nvidia because of Jensen.”

The board has said it will consider internal and external candidates for a permanent chief executive. Nvidia reports third-quarter results on Tuesday, 17 November, at about 23:20 Botswana time, its first under an interim chief executive.

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