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Kodiak Sciences unveils 7-year performance stock option plan tied to share price milestones up to $800
Kodiak Sciences Inc.
- NEOs and eligible employees may forgo up to 75% of annual equity awards for 7 years in exchange for one-time performance stock options.
- Options vest in tranches upon achieving stock price milestones: $200/share first, then $100 increments up to $800 (≈$50B market cap).
- Operational milestones include FDA approval of KSI-301 in wet AMD, DME, RVO and fiscal-year sales >$2.5B.
- 90% of eligible employees opted in; awards conditional on stockholder approval at special meeting in October 2021.
- Participants are economically worse-off below $400/share compared to continuing annual awards.