Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock Eric Gullichsen, September 2026 I was an early advisor to NVIDIA in 1993, and recently discovered I’m owed about a billion dollars in stock. Early Days It is not widely known, but I was invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of NVIDIA in 1993 by Jensen (at that time, sans leather jacket)1. In September 1993, I was granted 25,000 options, “in a series of quarterly installments so that all shares shall vest upon the expiration of one year from Grant Date.”2 This invitation followed a meeting I had with Jensen, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky on my houseboat, the SS Vallejo, in Sausalito.
- ▪Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock Eric Gullichsen, September 2026 I was an early advisor to NVIDIA in 1993, and recently discovered I’m owed about a billion dollars in stock.
- ▪Early Days It is not widely known, but I was invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of NVIDIA in 1993 by Jensen (at that time, sans leather jacket)1.
- ▪In September 1993, I was granted 25,000 options, “in a series of quarterly installments so that all shares shall vest upon the expiration of one year from Grant Date.”2 This invitation followed a meeting I had with Jensen, Curtis Priem, and
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Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock Eric Gullichsen, September 2026 I was an early advisor to NVIDIA in 1993, and recently discovered I’m owed about a billion dollars in stock. Early Days It is not widely known, but I was invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of NVIDIA in 1993 by Jensen (at that time, sans leather jacket)1. In September 1993, I was granted 25,000 options, “in a series of quarterly installments so that all shares shall vest upon the expiration of one year from Grant Date.”2 This invitation followed a meeting I had with Jensen, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky on my houseboat, the SS Vallejo, in Sausalito. I’d done a fair bit of work with Curtis circa 1990, when he was at Sun Microsystems, architect of the SPARCstation GX chip.
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