Snap CEO Evan Spiegel got $638mn in year of firm’s IPO

Bloomberg

Snap Inc.’s CEO Evan Spiegel is poised to become one of the highest-paid US executives for 2017, thanks to a $636.6 million stock grant he got when his company went public.
The Venice, California-based maker of the Snapchat photo-sharing app awarded Spiegel shares equal to 3 percent of the outstanding capital stock when the initial public offering closed in March, according to the firm’s annual report filed. He’ll receive the shares in increments through 2020.
Snap has had a volatile first year as a publicly traded company. Executives overseeing product, engineering and sales have departed. Facebook Inc. has copied some of its most popular features for bigger audiences and Twitter Inc. is said to be working on a new Snapchat-style product.
Scores of users including Kylie Jenner have criticised the recent update of the app. The stock fell as much as 7.2 percent on Thursday after Jenner tweeted to her 24.5 million followers, “sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me…ugh this is so sad.”
The stock also has lagged the S&P 500 Information Technology Index in the past 12 months.
Spiegel, 27, also received about $1.08 million in company-paid perks including legal fees and $561,892 for personal security services. His salary was cut from $500,000 to $1 around the time of the IPO.