Paul Gu Upstart compensation

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The Compensation Committee and board of directors believe that the next seven years are very important to the further development of Upstart and the delivery of value to stockholders. Mr. Gu led the development and building of the automated loan flows and artificial intelligence models that provide us a competitive advantage and currently leads the product and data science teams that continue to develop more accurate AI models and the automation of our processes. His leadership in these key functional areas makes it critical to retain and provide further incentive to Mr. Gu for the next phase of Upstart’s lifecycle so that we can continue to deliver stockholder value.

Because of this, the vesting of the Performance Award is heavily weighted toward being earned at higher stock prices (only 21.4% of the Performance Award can be earned if Upstart’s stock price does not reach $347, 2.40x the reference price used to set the targets) and the Performance Award will fully vest as to 687,500 shares only if Upstart’s stock price reaches $616 for a 60 consecutive trading day period (approximately 4.25x the reference price used to set the targets) and certain service conditions are met over a 7-year period.

Paul Gu is betting on himself and Upstart. I personally love it. Glad to be long Upstart.

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