It’s been just a little over twenty-four hours since Jensen Huang’s ignominious resignation from Nvidia, the company he cofounded in 1993 and turned into a tech behemoth. And already an army of employees is calling for his return.
Before Nvidia’s board of directors announced Thursday morning that Huang would be stepping aside, to be replaced by longtime company CFO Colette Kress, a veteran engineer at Nvidia submitted an internal post urging the board to take employee sentiment into account before making a final decision, Wired reported Thursday evening. It has since turned into a kind of petition for the disgraced ex-CEO’s return, garnering more than 1,600 comments, many of which are reportedly supportive of Huang’s reinstatement as CEO.
Some current and former Nvidia staffers have also publicly lamented Huang’s departure since Thursday morning, describing him as a singular and visionary leader without whom Nvidia will be left rudderless, to the detriment of the entire American AI effort. “His departure is a huge loss,” Denis Timonin, an engineer who left Nvidia in 2024 to found his own company, wrote in a LinkedIn post on Thursday. “An affair, on its own, shouldn’t outweigh decades of leadership. The serious questions deserve real answers. But the soap opera shouldn’t decide his future… I want Jensen to keep building and leading.
