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88% of Nvidia Staff Backed Huang Days Before He Resigned
In an anonymous Blind poll on 9 and 10 November, 88% of 232 Nvidia employees said Jensen Huang should stay as CEO. Two days later he resigned.
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Key points
- 88% of 232 Nvidia employees polled on Blind said Jensen Huang should remain CEO; 11% said he should step down and 1% wanted the board to remove him.
- The poll ran on 9 and 10 November, before Nvidia said on 12 November that Huang had resigned.
- In a wider Blind poll of 1,689 professionals, 60% backed Huang staying.
Nearly nine in ten Nvidia employees who answered a poll on Blind, the anonymous workplace app, wanted Jensen Huang to remain chief executive. Of 232 Nvidia staff surveyed on 9 and 10 November, 88% said he should stay, 11% said he should step down himself and 1% said the board should remove him, Investing.com reported. 24/7 Wall St. reported the same figure.
Outside the company, support was weaker. In a wider Blind poll of 1,689 professionals, 60% backed Huang staying, 18% wanted him to leave on his own and 22% wanted the board to remove him, according to the same Investing.com report.
Two days after the poll closed, Nvidia said Huang had resigned as president, CEO and board member, effective immediately. Chief financial officer Colette Kress is interim CEO, and Harvey C. Jones is the board’s first chair.
How the week unfolded is in Five Days That Ended Huang’s Reign, and who leads the company now is in Who Runs Nvidia Now? The next test is Nvidia’s results on 17 November, its first without Huang.
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