NVIDIA's reported $12.9B Hugging Face deal would mint $9.5M for an early engineer
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-03
An unconfirmed deal would have NVIDIA acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B. An engineer who joined in 2019 with a 0.1% equity grant (worth $80k at issuance) would hold shares worth $9.5M — roughly 120x even after 26% dilution over 7 years.
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