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An early Nvidia adviser says he’s owed about $1 billion in unissued 1993 stock options

His documents and timeline are in the post; treat it as one side.

A former member of Nvidia’s 1993 technical advisory board writes that he was granted 25,000 options that he says were never delivered and would now be worth about a billion dollars. These are his claims; Nvidia’s response isn’t included.

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    After exploring Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock, for the chip this story is about, read NV1.

    Nvidia’s first graphics chip (1995), which bet on quadratic texture mapping, the technique this adviser says caught Nvidia’s founders’ attention. DirectX went with triangles and the NV1 flopped.

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