It was a great read and I am inspired by your stoic philosophy and it's sort of amazing that I can just talk to you via Hackernews :-D

but aside from that, a question I and many are wondering,

1.) is there a surefire guarantee that the case would be dismissed by court or that there is just a low chance of it being done.

Because if Nvidia knows this, then they are saying so sue us as a way to do just that (deterring you), but if the statute of limitations don't particularly apply though (as some have suggested here), then isn't litigation still a good path?

Also, instead of litigating with your own money, I imagine that there must be a market for cases like these who can litigate for you and win a portion of the money as well without requiring litigation fees from you. (A lot of hackernews comments are about this)

At best: you actually win money. At worst: you don't (but that's where you currently are), so perhaps there's still a reason to try.

IANAL and you have contacted top lawyers, (so please correct me if I am wrong as I usually am.)

2: how do you feel about the whole situation? I imagine not everyone has sort of even the possibility of becoming almost an billionaire. Also, do you believe that there could be other people like you as well where because of some technicality/(statute of limitations), they too didn't get the money/stocks?

3: What are the life lessons that you would like to give to the next generation?

It's still so impressive to me that I can just ask questions to you on hackernews just like that, thanks for taking the time to read it and have a nice day, kind sir!

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Eric_Gullichsen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

(1) Not a certainty that it would be dismissed. Just a high enough likelihood that after hundreds of hours or work with my lawyers (who were excellent) and many rounds of letters and meetings with NVIDIA counsel - all very professional - it wasn't worth our time to pursue further. I have other things to do with my brief adventure on this planet. (2) Feel? At this point just sort of amused by it all. (3) Read the contracts. Carefully. In 1996 NVIDIA was 3 years before IPO and nearly bankrupt, and I was busy. Too busy to read the contracts.

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		Read the contracts. Carefully. May I use your example if I give a talk at some point trying to impress upon the audience why they should actually read agreements before they sign them?
	▲	Imustaskforhelp 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thanks for taking your time to write the comment, I appreciate it and for the life lesson to actually read the contracts, carefully. I imagine that it doesn't become a priority or we are too busy for it until we suddenly aren't (seems like its a lot closer to hygiene/health) Perhaps we can call it as a form of legal hygiene so as to impart the habit to the next generation. (Please feel free to correct me or tell me if there's a more proper term to what I am referring as, as well but I like the intuition/metaphor of treating it as hygiene.) Thank you and have a nice day :-D

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lazyasciiart 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> At best: you actually win money. At worst: you don't

No, at worst the court orders you to pay for the time spent by lawyers working for the company you sued. This option exists to nudge that calculation “it’s a million to one chance, but it might just work” away from filing lawsuits just for the hell of it.