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Issuer:     Better Home & Finance Holding Co (BETR)
CIK:        0001835856
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-08T20:31:32+00:00
Accession:  0001835856-26-000034
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Better Home & Finance announces departures of President Chad Smith and COO Barry Feierstein
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- Chad M. Smith's employment ends Sept 2, 2026; receives $416,666 (5 months salary), 6 months COBRA, accelerated vesting of 10,000 RSUs.
- Barry Feierstein, COO, departs effective Sept 4, 2026 via mutual separation agreement; terms to be filed later.
- Both separations are mutual agreements with general releases, confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.
- Smith's indemnification agreement remains in effect; agreements to be filed as exhibits to Q3 10-Q.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835856/000183585626000034/0001835856-26-000034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835856/000183585626000034/betr-20260901.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001835856-26-000034

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