Ex-Nvidia advisor says the company owes him $1 billion in stock, but Nvidia disagrees
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Through the looking glass: In a stunning blog post published this week, tech entrepreneur and virtual reality pioneer, Eric Gullichsen, claimed that Nvidia owes him roughly $1 billion in stock due to a gross miscalculation more than 30 years ago. Gullichsen served on Nvidia's Technical Advisory Board from September 1993 to April 1996.
According to Gullichsen, he was granted 25,000 stock options in 1993 after demonstrating his fast implementation of biquadratic texture mapping to Nvidia co-founders Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem, technology detailed in a US patent on which he is a named inventor.
However, when he left the company in April 1996, only 15,625 options had vested instead of 25,000, a shortfall he attributes to an error in the paperwork.
By Gullichsen's calculations, the 9,375 options that never vested would be worth...
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