[jokethrowaway]

Great problem to have.

Probably the key players that contributed to key decisions made 10x the middle managers and that's what drove them to success. I'm also inclined to think those people are already busy on the next big thing (in nvidia or somewhere else)

It sucks to see middle managers who contributed little being rewarded but that's almost inevitable in a large company.

Maybe the next nvidia will learn the lesson and allocate more stocks to key players and less to drone employees - and maybe just have less middle managers all together.