Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

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I was an early advisor to NVIDIA in 1993, and recently discovered I’m owed about a billion dollars in stock. Subsequently, I implemented bilinear texture mapping using the Intel i750 DVI chip. Curtis understood the potential of non-linear texture mapping to differentiate NVIDIA’s first product, the NV1, from the competition.

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