{
  "id": 10345277,
  "title": "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/owed-a-billion-dollars-in-nvidia-stock",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-28T02:05:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News",
    "slug": "hacker-news",
    "url": "https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Early in his career, the reporter was invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of NVIDIA in 1993 by Jensen, who was still without his leather jacket at the time. The invitation came after a meeting between the reporter, Jensen, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky on the reporter's houseboat in Sausalito. The reporter had been working with Curtis in the 1990s, developing texture mapping techniques for NVIDIA's first product, the NV1. When the NV1 shipped in 1995, Microsoft decided not to support quadratic texture mapping in their DirectX toolkit, which had a negative impact on NVIDIA's finances, leading to a large staff layoff. In April 1996, NVIDIA's CFO notified the reporter that 15,625 shares of his stock options had vested, which he had to exercise. The reporter later discovered that the vesting schedule should have been over four quarters, not four years, as both NVIDIA's CFO and their outside counsel had initially stated. Despite the stock's numerous splits, the reporter's remaining shares are now worth millions. Seeking legal counsel, the reporter found that the statute of limitations had passed, making it unlikely to prevail in court. The reporter shares this experience as a cautionary tale, highlighting that companies may not always uphold their contractual obligations over extended periods.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}