TechCrunch News 11月08日 05:19
Rivian CEO获得巨额新股票奖励,旨在激励公司未来发展
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Rivian公司为其创始人兼CEO RJ·斯卡林格(RJ Scaringe)授予了一项新的业绩股票奖励,如果所有目标达成,其潜在价值可能高达50亿美元。同时,他的年薪翻倍至200万美元,并获得了该公司最新剥离出的Mind Robotics的10%股份。此举发生在特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克获得一项可能价值1万亿美元的薪酬方案后不久。不同于马斯克的方案,斯卡林格的方案无需股东投票。Rivian董事会的薪酬委员会已取消了2021年授予斯卡林格的类似规模的业绩奖励,原因是认为其目标难以实现。新的奖励旨在激励斯卡林格推动公司技术路线图和R2车型的发布,并确保只有在公司为股东创造显著价值时,期权才能行权。

🚗 **重塑CEO激励机制:** Rivian取消了2021年授予CEO RJ·斯卡林格的、基于股票价格的业绩股票期权,因为其目标设定被认为难以实现。取而代之的是一项新的股票奖励,如果公司达到特定业绩目标,其价值可达50亿美元,旨在更好地激励CEO在公司关键发展阶段的领导力。

💰 **薪酬与股权调整:** 除巨额股票奖励外,RJ·斯卡林格的年薪翻倍至200万美元,并获得了新成立的Mind Robotics公司的10%股权。这些调整表明了公司对CEO的重视以及对其未来领导能力的信心,同时确保了CEO的利益与公司的长期发展紧密挂钩。

📈 **业绩与价值挂钩的期权:** 新的股票奖励与Rivian未来的股价和运营业绩紧密相连。部分期权将在Rivian股价达到特定门槛(如40美元至140美元)时解锁,而另一部分则需要公司达到调整后的营业收入和现金流目标。这种设计确保了CEO的收益与为股东创造的实际价值成正比,承诺在CEO实现所有里程碑时,公司价值将大幅提升。

🤝 **与特斯拉的对比与独立性:** Rivian的CEO薪酬方案在宣布时间上与特斯拉CEO马斯克获得巨额薪酬方案的消息相近,但Rivian的方案无需股东投票,由董事会薪酬委员会独立决定。这体现了Rivian在公司治理上的自主性,并强调了其薪酬决策是基于对CEO绩效和公司未来战略的考量。

Rivian has given its founder and CEO RJ Scaringe a new performance-based stock award that could ultimately be worth around $5 billion if all the underlying goals are met, according to a new filing.

Scaringe’s salary is also being doubled to $2 million per year, and he was given a 10% stake in Rivian’s newest spinout Mind Robotics, the filing shows.

The announcement comes just one day after Tesla shareholders voted to approve a compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk that could be worth $1 trillion — the largest in corporate history.

Unlike Musk’s pay package, Scaringe’s isn’t subject to a shareholder vote. The compensation committee on Rivian’s board of directors has canceled a similar-sized performance award given to Scaringe in 2021 as part of a company-wide equity incentive plan adopted that year. The new award is being issued under the same, already-approved 2021 equity incentive plan.

The committee decided to cancel the 2021 performance award in part because of the “unlikeliness” that Scaringe could reach the goals required. The 2021 award consisted of 20,355,946 stock options that vested in part based on stock price increases. Six years past the grant date, if Rivian’s share price passed $110, $150, $220, and $295, Scaringe would be able to purchase the stock options in corresponding tranches for just $21.72.

Rivian’s stock shot up to around $129 following its IPO in November 2021. But it fell to around $30 over the next six months, and has spent the last few years typically trading between $10 and $20. This has made it harder for Scaringe to access even part of the 2021 award, let alone the total value of around $6 billion, according to the company. (Scaringe was awarded another 6.8 million stock options that simply vest over time in the 2021 award that were not tied to performance, and the company says those have not been canceled.)

In the filing, Rivian wrote that this created a “lack of incentive.” So the compensation committee decided to replace the old award with this new one.

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“Following a review, and input from an independent compensation consultant, the Compensation Committee cancelled our CEO’s 2021 Performance Grant and issued a new performance stock option and increased our CEO’s base salary,” Rivian said in a statement to TechCrunch. “This new award is designed to retain and incentivize RJ to execute on the Company’s critical next phase as it progresses its technology roadmap and launches R2.”

Similar to how Tesla pitched its new award to Musk, Rivian also said the performance grant to Scaringe is “structured in such a way that ensures the options only vest should the company deliver significant value to our shareholders.” The company pointed out that Scaringe won’t see $1 from the award before he helps add $32 billion in value to Rivian, and that shareholders will see “$153 billion of value creation” if he hits all milestones.

The maximum amount of shares available to Scaringe under new performance award is 36,500,000. He has 10 years to hit milestones that unlock the full amount, and if he does, he would own an additional 3% of the company. (Scaringe currently owns about 1% of Rivian, down from around 2% earlier this year after he transferred a portion of his holdings to his ex-wife as part of their divorce settlement, as TechCrunch first reported.)

A majority of those stock options — 22 million — is tied to new stock price hurdles. Scaringe will earn 2 million shares once Rivian’s stock hits $40, and then another 2 million shares for every $10 increase up to a stock price of $140.

The remaining 14,500,000 stock options are locked away until Rivian reaches certain adjusted operating income and cash flow targets. Scaringe will have to pay a strike price of $15.22 per share to exercise these options — a possible total of around $555 million.

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