Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by jmathai on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:39PM (#50477411)

I imagine there's a lot of mixed emotions at Nvidia. Jensen seemed to have a very likable persona about him and he truly was a great CEO of the company. I imagine many looked up to him and are left to make sense of the past week.

They've also taken a pretty big pay cut this week and potentially into the future.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by drivingmenuts on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:40PM (#50477416)

Well, at least two people liked him.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by 00deadbeef on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:49PM (#50477474)

Three*

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-h...

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by kikokikokiko on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:58PM (#50477575)

At least the more women that appears the less any single one of them can feel guilty of shareholder value destruction. At the beginning it was all on the shoulders of Alice, the poor girl, hundreds and hundreds of billions of guilt, now it must be on double digits already, way more manageable.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by nozzlegear on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:54PM (#50478060)

[delayed]

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by raddan on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:14PM (#50477711)

Finally, a Polymarket bet I can get behind!

https://polymarket.com/event/how-many-jensen-huang-affairs-w...

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by consensus1 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:49PM (#50477475)

At least one. Honeypots aren't in it for that.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by 16bitvoid on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:57PM (#50477563)

I think that was the joke, since there were three affairs, two of them being employees.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by paulryanrogers on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:32AM (#50483242)

Subordinates don't always say yes to an affair enthusiastically. They may feel they have no choice with their livelihood and future well being on the line.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by SoftTalker on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:51PM (#50477497)

The first stage is denial.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by slg on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:12PM (#50477693)

Mixed with a little Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hn_submit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:54PM (#50477527)

I guess many nVidia employees feel they'll be soon out of a job without him at the helm. Most don't care about his extramarital affairs.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thewhitetulip on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:26PM (#50478321)

I don't think nvidia will go down. But their RSUs are taking a big hit

Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hn_submit on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:05AM (#50478589)

It has some inertia, but without Huang the company will start to slide into oblivion. The thing they should be most worried about is his tactics for driving up prices and the company's stock price. That could start to haunt (and hurt) them pretty quickly.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by unethical_ban on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:04AM (#50479456)

I'm not sure about that. Granted, I know noting about his day to day impact on the operation of the company. But, assuming he has run a tight ship and he has hired a number of competent people below him, nVidia will stay relevant for a long time. AMD might rise and challenge their dominance on AI compute. However they're on a cash cow one way or the other for a number of years.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by aucisson_masque on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:25AM (#50480121)

Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time.

He didn’t do anything incredible.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by solyin on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:33AM (#50480197)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749

3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control, few people will ever know.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rob74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:52AM (#50482801)

Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by paulryanrogers on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:30AM (#50483216)

Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off.

Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by overfeed on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:55AM (#50478915)

It'd be spicier if it's AMD giving Jensen leadership of its GPU efforts there and automatically hiring anyone at Nvidia who wants to jump ship.

Unfortunately Jensen's 3.8% of $NVDA and/or golden handcuffs won't let him do this; but what I'd give to live in that universe.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by charlieyu1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:04AM (#50479936)

It doesn’t mean going down. A new CEO would likely start a round of layoffs to bring in new personal favourites and no employee would like that

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by amanaplanacanal on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:48AM (#50480882)

> Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI

Just as soon as they get their systems back up!

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by throw1234567891 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:13AM (#50481143)

it's so funny how everyone has their own variation of the NVIDIA spelling, and almost breaks their fingers while typing the name. Why not nVIdiA.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by tasuki on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:26AM (#50481325)

The `nVidia` spelling has been used quite often in the past, eg https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2009/09/28/microsoft-nvi...

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by throw1234567891 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:11AM (#50481852)

Whatever. The company is called NVIDIA: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rsynnott on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:33AM (#50482032)

It's repeatedly changed its own capitalisation; it can't really expect everyone else to pay too much attention to this.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by throw1234567891 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:45AM (#50482150)

It's like this since 2010. Hard to miss.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rsynnott on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:48AM (#50482761)

I mean, it's just branding. It's had at least three capitalisation schemes that I can remember.

Weird capitalisation schemes are a particularly bad branding approach, as people tend to just ignore them. This is hardly unique to nvidia; any brand which has a weird capitalisation scheme will tend to have it ignored by most people. Especially where it's really awkward/incorrect-looking (in nvidia's case they're trying to get people to use full-caps for a non-acronym).

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by throw1234567891 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:38AM (#50484172)

Yeah. It's just branding. With its own guidelines: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/legal-info/logo-br....

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