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. Sun was one of the companies supporting my early virtual reality company, Sense8 Corporation. The Sun GX was blazingly fast at blitting polygons - some 50k/second - and we’d ported Sense8’s VR rendering to it. Subsequently, I implemented bilinear texture mapping using the Intel i750 DVI chip.…