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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

1091 points · 458 comments · Eric_Gullichsen

  1. goodmythical · · focus · HN ↗
    tl;dr

    OP was not given all of the shares earned at the time decades ago and didn't realize that they should've been payed out, but after engaging in a lawsuit realized that the court would likely not grant the case give the statute of limitations.

    Kinda like all the Sony game 'owners' not carefully reasing the legally binding contracts they're always signing realizing that they are not in fact purchasing a gauranteed lifetime access to the game.

    1. 12345hn6789 · · focus · HN ↗
      Correction: the author accepted a grant for X options, that they must exercise to own. The author exercised a percentage of the options. They did not exercise all of their options. They left the company without exercising the remaining options. This is equivalent to forfeiting the options.

      Now, 25 years later the author is preparing a litigation.

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