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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

Eric Gullichsen's 1993 advisory contract specified a one-year vesting schedule for 25,000 options, but Nvidia mistakenly applied a four-year schedule, leaving 9,375 shares—now worth over $1 billion—unvested and legally time-barred.

💬 Several users suggest selling the litigation rights to a third-party firm to pursue the claim.
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colo.to Owed a billion dollars in NVDA 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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