They are stock options. The money comes from the open market if he decides to sell the shares, and the shares themselves come from share dilution if he decides to exercise the options.

Should've let him keep the options we granted him back in 2018. Taking away his performance-based compensation is total bullshit. I voted to give it back. His options were worthless for most of that time. He got the stock to appreciate a lot and some guy with 6 shares sued him for this crap so that the lawyers and him could split $5 b that a judge granted them.

If anyone took away a software engineers options here after a company became successful because the company later decided it's too much there'd be hell to pay. Everyone rightfully complained about Zynga doing this.

But here it's fine? Bullshit. I voted to pay the man his due. I voted to move the corp out of Delaware to Texas. He made me money under reasonable terms. Back then everyone said he'd just fail.