AI Weekly Malaysia

Eric Gullichsen writes that he was granted 25,000 NVIDIA options in September 1993 as an early advisor, exercised 15,625 shares in April 1996 after a CFO letter, and later found the signed agreement indicated vesting over four quarters rather than four years. He claims the remaining shares are now worth about a billion dollars, according to the post's title. The Hacker News thread has 211 points and 105 comments.

Why: For founders and early employees, the concrete lesson is to keep the signed option agreement and exercise records, because this dispute turns on 15,625 versus 25,000 shares and a four-quarter versus four-year vesting interpretation—not on what a CFO or outside counsel later asserted. No Malaysian or Southeast Asian impact is stated in the text.