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Equity · 2021–2024
NVIDIA
A job meets a wave.
An engineer joined NVIDIA in 2021. In a June 2024 interview, he reported $1.6 million in unvested shares after the AI surge.
- The choice
- Develop skills and accept a role that includes equity.
- The circumstances
- The timing and scale of demand for AI hardware.
- A different position
- A salary-only worker does not hold the same company exposure.