The author, an early advisor to NVIDIA, recounts being granted 25,000 stock options in 1993 as part of the company's Technical Advisory Board, which they believed would vest after one year. However, decades later, they discovered a discrepancy in the vesting schedule, potentially entitling them to approximately $1 billion in NVIDIA stock. Unfortunately, the statute of limitations has expired, preventing them from pursuing the claim. The author reflects on their early involvement with NVIDIA, including meetings with founders Jensen, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky, and their work on virtual reality and texture mapping technologies that caught the attention of the company's founders.