NEWS: Rivian has announced that it is giving its CEO, RJ Scaringe, a revised pay package worth as much as $4.6 billion over the next decade, and the deal’s structure will be performance-based. Performance-Based Conditions Stock Price Hurdles: • 22 million shares (11 tranches of 2 million each) are tied to stock price targets. • Each tranche vests only if the company’s average stock price reaches a certain level for 120 consecutive trading days. • Targets range from $40 to $140, in $10 increments: $40, $50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, $110, $120, $130, $140 • If a stock price hurdle isn’t reached within 10 years from the Grant Date, that tranche is forfeited. Adjusted Operating Income Targets: • Up to 7.25 million shares can be earned if the company achieves certain full-year adjusted operating income levels. • The performance period runs through December 31, 2032. • There are three targets (specific dollar values not disclosed): - Target 1: up to 1.25 million shares - Target 2: up to 3.0 million shares - Target 3: up to 3.0 million shares Cash Flow From Operations Targets: • Up to 7.25 million shares can also be earned based on full-year cash flow from operations results. • Performance period also runs through December 31, 2032. • Three targets: - Target 1: up to 1.25 million shares - Target 2: up to 3.0 million shares - Target 3: up to 3.0 million shares

Nov 7, 2025 · 9:57 PM UTC

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@grok do the rivian shareholders have to vote for this?
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I’m a Tesla owner and shareholder and I wish Rivian and Lucid well. If they can get an FSD equivalent and have better build and reliability I would consider getting on their SUV in addition to my Model X. They have some features that the X lacks. But only lease as it is suspect if they will be in business in five years
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RJ and Rivian deserve the world. As Tesla fans we also should encourage rivians growth and i’m glad to see this since it pushes the very few NEW EV companies to try more not just let legacy companies keep doing what they do and actually try to innovate
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Good industry trend, but how are the goals tied together? Also, a red flag went up in my mind when I realized the RJ stock price goal could span as little as one quarterly report. With Elon’s tranches, stock price needs to be sustained for a year, as I recall…
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Lmaoooo. "Performance based" on just stock price?? Are you fucking kidding me??????? That's not performance. Performance would be similar to Elon's actual performance based packages. Car deliveries couldn't have been a milestone? Not even reaching a certain milestone? Or even revenue target? NOTHING? Just stock price? Wow.
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Big fan of big-time CEO pay packages moving towards performance based ones. Always a bit ridiculous when you learn about some F500 CEO who is making 100m who has done nothing good for the company for years
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I’m not a fan of stock price performance awards on its own. It should include vehicle delivery target and product innovation. Anyways I do still favor large performance targets for CEOs
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What a concept, compensation based on merit.
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Do their shareholders not have to vote on it or how does that work?
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Here's the kicker: research shows excessive CEO pay rarely correlates with sustained company performance. It often reflects market hype rather than operational excellence. Paying CEOs like lottery winners ironically makes leadership less about actual leadership.
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so most of the tranches are just to get to original IPO pricing? lmaoo
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I want to see Rivian succeed.
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RJ copying Elon like:
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Good news! Rivian won't have to pay him because these targets won't be reached: Targets range from $40 to $140, in $10 increments: $40, $50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, $110, $120, $130, $140
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they should make it clear that the numbers should be positive - record profits not record losses!!
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There a 8 billion people on this planet, if RJ gave... Ok, joke is played out.
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Tesla solved autonomous driving. I don't think Rivian investors understand the significance of this. In the end everyone deserves what they get.
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Isn't that Steve o?
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we're (back) in the era of reward-based compensation. i'm very ok with this. lee iacocca would be, too.
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In the good old days, CEO benefits were tied to product sales, costs, efficiency, customer base...
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Rivian just handed RJ Scaringe a potential $5B jackpot if the stock hits $140 and the company turns profitable by 2032. Bold move or boardroom overreach? A few questions I’d love the community to weigh in on: 1. Is a $5B ceiling on CEO pay *actually* aligned with shareholders when the first vesting tier ($40) already demands 170% upside from today’s $14.73? 2. Tesla’s 2018 package went to a shareholder vote and still got torched in court. Rivian slipped this through without one—fair play in a private-to-public transition, or a red flag? 3. 10% of the Mind Robotics spinout for free feels like a hidden kicker. Are we okay with founders quietly carving out side bets on future moonshots? 4. If RJ hits every milestone, Rivian becomes profitable, and the stock 10X’s—does he *deserve* $5B, or does that break the social contract between founders and the retail investors who stuck around through the -90% drawdown? Drop your take below: genius incentive design or late-stage EV desperation? 👇 I’m especially curious what long-term $RIVN bagholders think—did this news make you want to average down or run for the exits? Let’s talk.
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How many shares of RIVN does Tornetta own?
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If this gets Rivian profitable then great.
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What are those operating income and cash flow target? Didn’t mention.
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Performance based compensation. How bout’ that? Companies still paying based on DNA or virtue will eat the dust of others deciding to be productive.
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22m shares of the 37m total (~60%) based on stock price only. Bummer. They should have followed teslas approach to protect the shareholders.
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Happy to see this becoming the norm. I wish him and Rivian well.
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I cannot believe anyone would be paid so much money it’s anti human 😂
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quick somebody call bernie sanders and billie eilish
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I literally thought that was Steve-O for a moment there.
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Let's go! I want Rivian to succeed.
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I hope they’ll be around in a decade 🫣
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RJ = 0.5% x Elon
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Bless his little heart.