Snowflake CEO Collects a $108 Million Payout -- Every Month

December 4, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

Snowflake Inc. is doing well by any stretch of the imagination.

This week, the cloud-computing company reported that third-quarter revenue more than doubled from a year earlier, and its stock has surged 223% since its Sept. 15 initial public offering.

That has helped make Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman one of the best-paid technology executives. A compensation package he received upon joining Snowflake in April 2019 awards him a batch of options every month -- for four years -- that are now worth more than $108 million each, or about $1.3 billion annually.

Frank Slootman
Source: Snowflake Inc.

Slootman’s pay includes more than 13.7 ...

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