Alex Ossola

So the companies that I rattled off in the intro, KKR, Rivian, Roblox, Robinhood, these are not the biggest of the big companies, like maybe not the ones I would have expected to be offering these $100 million pay packages to their CEOs.

What do these companies have in common?

Fair enough.

And this new analysis by the compensation data firm Equilar looked at just two years, 2020 and 2021.

How many of the CEOs of those 20 companies actually hit the goals that were laid out for them, and how many just gave up on those goals completely?

So for the companies that did have these big pay packages for their CEOs, how did the companies actually do?

That was WSJ special writer, Tao Francis.

Thanks, Tao.

And that's what's news for this Tuesday afternoon.

Today's show is produced by Pierre Bien-Aimé with supervising producer Tali Arbel.

I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.

We'll be back with a new show tomorrow morning.

Thanks for listening.

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