A Billion Dollars in Nvidia Stock He Never Claimed

The author recounts joining Nvidia's Technical Advisory Board in 1993 at Jensen Huang's invitation, receiving 25,000 options, and working on biquadratic texture mapping for the NV1. Microsoft's DirectX supporting only triangles hurt Nvidia, leading to layoffs and, he says, costing him stock now worth about a billion dollars.

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