BiyaPay Analyst: Musk-Style Incentives Reappear, GameStop Announces Trillion-Dollar CEO Long-Term Incentive Plan
GameStop (GME) board announced an aggressive long-term CEO incentive plan: granting Ryan Cohen approximately 172 million stock options with an exercise price of $20.66, no fixed salary, and gradual vesting only upon achieving market capitalization and performance targets. The reward threshold starts at a market cap of $20 billion and cumulative EBITDA of $2 billion, with full vesting requiring a market cap of $100 billion and cumulative EBITDA of $10 billion. Following the announcement, GME rose nearly 5% in early trading.
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