Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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A former employee recounts their experience with a stock option grant from Nvidia in 1993, detailing a surprising vesting error discovered years later and the legal implications of the statute of limitations. The story highlights the complexities of stock options and their long-term consequences.

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