Your employment | ||||||||
POSITION | Christine Flores You’ll be a General Counsel You’ll report to Ben Silbermann You’ll work out of our office in San Francisco You may need to travel for work from time to time Your first day will be TBD | |||||||
OBLIGATIONS TO PINTEREST | You agree to devote your working hours and full-time efforts to Pinterest while you’re employed here. We don’t mind if you serve on any corporate, civic, charitable boards or committees that you feel passionate about; give lectures and talks; or teach at schools—as long as these things don’t interfere with your Pinterest duties or violate your confidentiality obligations. You also agree to follow all our policies and rules. | |||||||
CONFLICTING OBLIGATIONS | You must tell us before your first day about any obligations or commitments that are inconsistent with the duties we’ve outlined in this agreement. By signing this agreement, you’re promising that: •You will not use or disclose any trade secrets, proprietary information or intellectual property that you or any other person have a right, title or interest to in connection with the work you do at Pinterest; •You have returned any property or confidential information that belongs to your former employers; and •You aren’t violating the rights of anyone by accepting employment here at Pinterest. | |||||||
Your compensation | ||||||||
SALARY | We agree to pay you an initial base salary at a gross annual rate of $300,000.00 based on our standard payroll procedures. Our compensation team will review your salary rate at least once a year. | |||||||
STOCK GRANT | Subject to our Board’s approval, we’ll grant you 1,750,000 restricted stock units (RSUs). Each RSU will entitle you to 1 share of Pinterest common stock after the RSU vests. The RSU will be subject to two vesting conditions – a “Service-Based Vesting Condition” and an “Event-Based Vesting Condition”. Both of these vesting conditions must be met for each RSU before the RSU will settle and you will receive shares. The Service-Based Vesting Condition will be met as you provide service to the Company over time as follows: 1/4 of the RSUs will vest when you complete 12 months of continuous service with the Company, and 1/16 of the RSUs will vest on each 3-month anniversary of continuous service with the Company after that. The Event-Based Vesting Condition will be met if the Company completes an IPO or a Change in Control (as defined in Appendix 1), in either case, within 7 years of the RSU grant date. When both vesting conditions are met for an RSU, the RSU will settle, and you will receive shares, at the time and in the manner set forth in the standard form Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, which will set forth the terms and conditions applicable to the RSUs. Your RSUs will also be subject to our 2009 Stock Plan. Notwithstanding the above, the Service-Based Vesting Condition applicable to your RSUs will be met on an accelerated basis such that you will be treated as if you have completed two years of continuous service with the Company (i.e. 50% of your RSUs will be vested) (the “Acceleration”) if (i) on or before the second anniversary of your employment start date, and (ii) within 90 days before a Change in Control, or one year after a Change in Control, either of the following occurs (either, a “Triggering Termination”): |
1.Pinterest terminates your employment without Cause (as defined in Appendix 1); or 2. You terminate your employment for Good Reason (as defined in Appendix 1); and in either case, you comply with the Obligations (as defined in Appendix 1). Any Acceleration that occurs pursuant to the provisions above shall be effective as of the date your employment terminates or, if later, the consummation of the Change in Control. Further, notwithstanding anything stated herein, if your RSUs are not assumed or replaced with similar equity awards in connection with a Change in Control, you will be entitled to the Acceleration set forth above, and the Acceleration shall occur effective immediately prior to, and contingent upon, the consummation of the Change in Control, as long as your service will continue with the acquirer after the consummation of the Change in Control (i.e., the Acceleration will not occur in this case if, prior to or in connection with a Change in Control, you are terminated for Cause, or you resign for any reason other than Good Reason, or you experience a Triggering Termination but you do not comply with the Obligations). | ||||||||
SIGN-ON BONUS | In your first paycheck after you start, we’ll pay you a sign-on bonus of $150,000.00. If you quit or your employment is terminated within twelve months of your start date for any reason, you’ll pay back a portion of the bonus prorated to the number of months you were employed, and you authorize Pinterest to withhold this amount from any payments Pinterest might owe you at the time of your departure. | |||||||
ADDITIONAL BONUS | After one year of continuous service, we’ll pay you a one-time bonus of $150,000.00. If you quit or your employment is terminated prior to that time for any reason, you will not be entitled to the bonus. If you quit or your employment is terminated after that time but within twelve months of your start date for any reason, you’ll pay back a portion of the bonus prorated to the number of months you were employed, and you authorize Pinterest to withhold this amount from any payments Pinterest might owe you at the time of your departure. | |||||||
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS | You’ll be eligible for vacation and other time off and to participate in the employee benefit plans maintained by Pinterest, all subject to Pinterest’s standard policies. | |||||||
BUSINESS EXPENSES AND TRAVEL POLICY | We’ll reimburse you for all reasonable and necessary businesses expenses so long as you follow our reimbursement procedure. | |||||||
Termination | ||||||||
AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT | You’ll be an “at-will” employee, which means that you or Pinterest can terminate your employment any time and for any reason, without cause or notice. This agreement takes the place of anything you may have been told or agreed to already and is the full agreement between you and Pinterest on the “at-will” nature of your employment. The only way your “at-will” status can change is through a written agreement signed by you and an authorized officer of Pinterest. | |||||||
YOUR RIGHTS AFTER TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT | If Pinterest terminates your employment, you’ll only be entitled to compensation, benefits and reimbursements earned or accrued before your termination date. | |||||||
Before you start | ||||||||
CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT | You must sign and deliver a copy of the confidentiality agreement attached to this agreement on or before your start date. | |||||||
RIGHT TO WORK | Federal immigration law requires that you provide us with evidence of your identity and eligibility for employment in the United States. We will ask you to provide this on your first day of work. | |||||||
Successors | ||||||||
PINTEREST’S SUCCESSORS | Pinterest’s successors may enforce this agreement and Pinterest’s rights under it, so if someone else takes over all or most of Pinterest’s business and/or assets, this agreement will apply to that entity the same way it would apply to Pinterest. | |||||||
YOUR SUCCESSORS | Your personal or legal representatives executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees may enforce this agreement and your rights under it. | |||||||
Miscellaneous stuff | ||||||||
NOTICE | You agree to keep us up to date on your address. We’ll send you communications relating to this agreement in writing. We may deliver these communications personally, send them by registered or certified mail, or express delivery service such as FedEx. You will be deemed to receive these communications when we deliver them to you personally, or when we send them via registered or certified mail or express delivery service to the address you most recently provided in writing. Please address any correspondence with us to our official business address directed to the attention of the company’s Secretary. | |||||||
WHOLE AGREEMENT | This agreement and the confidentiality agreement attached to it represent the entire agreement between you and Pinterest regarding the subjects they cover. You acknowledge that you and Pinterest have no other agreements or understandings (oral or written, express or implied) regarding the subjects covered by this agreement, and you have not made or received any additional representations relating to these subjects. The terms of this agreement may only be modified by written agreement that you and an officer of Pinterest sign. | |||||||
WITHHOLDING TAXES | If the law or tax code requires it, the payments made under this agreement could be reduced. | |||||||
CHOICE OF LAW AND SEVERABILITY | This agreement will be interpreted according to the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to provisions governing the choice of law. If any provision in this agreement becomes or is deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any applicable jurisdiction because of the scope, extent or duration of its coverage, then this provision will be considered amended to the minimum extent necessary to bring it into line with the law (so it’s valid and enforceable). If we can’t amend the provision without significantly changing either your or our intentions, then we’ll strike the provision and the rest of this agreement will stay in effect. If any provision of this agreement is rendered illegal by any present or future statute, law, ordinance or regulation, then that provision will be curtailed or limited only to the minimum extent necessary to make the provision comply with the law. All the other terms and provisions of this agreement will stay in effect. | |||||||
ASSIGNMENT | This agreement and all your rights and obligations in it are personal to you – you can’t transfer or reassign them. Pinterest may assign it rights under this agreement to any entity that takes over our obligations under this agreement in connection with a sale or transfer of assets or control. | |||||||
COUNTERPARTS | This agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts. Each of these will be considered an original, and together they will constitute a single agreement. |
Sincerely, | ||||||||
/s/ Ben Silbermann | /s/ Evan Sharp | |||||||
Ben Silbermann, Co-Founder | Evan Sharp, Co-Founder | |||||||
Please sign below: | ||||||||
/s/ Christine Flores | ||||||||
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Christine Flores | ||||||||
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2/27/2017 | ||||||||
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1) MY RELATIONSHIP WITH PINTEREST | This agreement applies to my employment relationship with Pinterest Inc., and any of its present or future subsidiaries, affiliates or successors (“Pinterest”). It also applies if my employment ends but Pinterest hires me again or asks me to consult within a year, unless we agree otherwise in writing. For purposes of this agreement, my employment or consulting relationship with Pinterest – whether it started before, on, or after this agreement’s date – will be called the “Relationship”. | |||||||
2) CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION | (a) Definition “Confidential Information” is any information or material that people outside of Pinterest don’t generally know about or have access to, as well as any information or material that third parties give to Pinterest in confidence. Confidential Information includes Company Inventions (defined below), business or financial information, knowledge, plans, forecasts, or anything else a reasonable person would understand to be confidential. Confidential Information doesn’t include information that becomes generally known or available to the public, so long as it doesn’t become known or available to the public because of anything I did, or anything I was supposed to do but didn’t do. (b) Protection I understand that Pinterest will provide me with Confidential Information so that I can do my job. I’ll keep Confidential Information confidential during and after the Relationship. I won’t use Confidential Information except to do my job, and for the benefit of Pinterest. I won’t share Confidential Information with anyone outside the company or make copies of Confidential Information unless I get written permission from Pinterest. c) Third Party Information The things I’m agreeing to in Section 2 are for the benefit of Pinterest and any third party that gives information or material to Pinterest in confidence. While working at Pinterest, I won’t share or use any confidential or secret information received from third parties unless they have expressly permitted me to do so. (d) Other Rights This agreement supplements, but doesn’t supersede, any rights that Pinterest has to protect trade secrets or any other confidential or proprietary information. | |||||||
3) INVENTIONS | (a) My Inventions “Inventions” means any discoveries, developments, concepts, designs, ideas, know how, improvements, inventions, trade secrets, or original works of authorship, regardless of whether these things are patentable, copyrightable or otherwise legally protectable. This includes products, designs, systems, methods, processes, configurations, and many other things. In Exhibit A, I’ve listed all Inventions that belong to me (alone or with others) and relate to Pinterest’s business or its products. I retain my rights in these listed Inventions, and I’m not assigning those rights to Pinterest. If no list is attached, that means I have no Inventions that relate to Pinterest’s business or its products. If I use or incorporate any Invention that belongs to me (alone or with others) in the course of my work at Pinterest, I’ll tell Pinterest first. Whether I tell Pinterest or not, I give Pinterest the right to use that Invention. Legally speaking, I grant Pinterest a non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty free, assumable, perpetual, worldwide license freely use that Invention under all intellectual property laws around the world. This license may be transferred or sublicensed by Pinterest at any time, without restriction. |
(b) Company Invention “Company Inventions” means any Invention that I author, discover, develop, dream up, improve, or reduce to practice during this Relationship (alone or with others), unless that Invention is excluded under the applicable state law (which I can reference in Exhibit B). If I believe that any Invention that I author, discover, develop, dream up, improve, or reduce to practice during this Relationship (alone or with others) is excluded by the provisions of Exhibit B, I’ll tell Pinterest promptly. I’ll tell Pinterest about all Company Inventions, and hold them in trust for the sole benefit of Pinterest. Whether I tell Pinterest or not, I hereby assign to Pinterest or its designee all my rights, title and interest throughout the world to all Company Inventions and all patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property rights in all Company Inventions. I agree that all Company Inventions that are made by me (alone or with others) are “works made for hire” to the greatest extent permitted by law, and that I’ve been compensated for them by my salary. I waive all claims, present or future, for infringement of any Company Invention. Any assignment of Company Inventions includes all so-called “moral rights,” “artist’s rights,” “driot moral,” or similar rights and if those rights can’t be assigned under applicable law, I waive all those rights. c) Records I’ll keep and maintain good records of all Company Inventions I make (alone or with others) during the Relationship. These records will be the sole property of Pinterest. I won’t take these records from the workplace except where company policies allow, and I understand that Pinterest may revise these policies from time to time. At the end of the Relationship, I’ll give these records and any copies of them to Pinterest, as required by Sections 5 and 6 of this agreement. d) Assistance In Securing Intellectual Property Rights I’ll help Pinterest or its designees secure and maintain all available rights in Company Inventions, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, moral rights, or any other possible rights, in all countries around the world. If asked, I’ll provide all information and sign all documents necessary to submit applications, specifications, assignments, recordations, oaths or anything else that will help | ||||||||
4) INTEREST PROPERTY AND DOCUMENTS | I understand I have no expectation of privacy when it comes to Pinterest’s communication or information systems (including files, emails and voicemails), and Pinterest may monitor my use of these systems at any time without notice. I understand that Pinterest may inspect any of its property at the workplace, including equipment, physical and electronic storage, and work spaces, among other things, at any time without notice. When my Relationship with Pinterest ends, I’ll return all equipment Pinterest has provided. I’ll also return all documents, information and other materials that belong to Pinterest, and won’t keep (or recreate) any copies. | |||||||
5) TERMINATION CERTIFICATION | Upon the termination of my employment, I’ll sign the “Termination Certification” in Exhibit C. Even if I don’t sign the Termination Certification, I’m still bound by the terms of this agreement. | |||||||
6) NOTICE TO THIRD PARTIES | Pinterest may tell third parties that I agreed to this confidentiality agreement, both during and after our Relationship. | |||||||
7) SOLICITATION OF EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS | During our Relationship and for a year after it ends, I won’t encourage Pinterest employees or consultants to leave Pinterest, or recruit them for other employment. I won’t, at any time, use Confidential Information to deter Pinterest’s clients or customers from doing business with Pinterest, or encourage them to do business with any company that competes directly or indirectly with Pinterest. Nor will I use Confidential Information in any other way that’s contrary to the interests of Pinterest. | |||||||
8) AT-WILL RELATIONSHIP | I understand I’m an “at-will” employee. I may terminate my employment with Pinterest, and Pinterest may do likewise, at any time for any reason or no reason, without any further obligations, other than the parts of this agreement that continue in effect after the Relationship. | |||||||
9) REPRESEN- TATIONS AND COVENANTS | (a) Cooperation If Pinterest asks, I’ll execute any oath, or verify any document required to carry out the terms of this agreement during the Relationship or after. (b) No Conflicts In signing this agreement, I’m not violating any agreements with, or promises to, any other person or company, and I won’t enter into any written or verbal agreement that conflicts with this one. I’ll honor all agreements and confidentiality obligations I have to any other party, and promise not to disclose to Pinterest any Inventions or Confidential Information belonging to anyone else. On Exhibit A, I’ve listed any agreements I have with current or past employers or other parties that might restrict my ability to accept this job, engage Pinterest’s customers or service providers, or perform my duties at and obligations to Pinterest. I’m not performing any services for any business (or proposed business) whose products or services might compete with Pinterest’s products or services, or any new products or services that Pinterest develops during the Relationship, nor do I intend to do so. If I want to do so in the future, I’ll tell Pinterest in writing, identify the organization I want to work for, and provide Pinterest with all of the information it needs to determine if that work would conflict with the interests of Pinterest. (c) Voluntary Execution I’ve read and understand all provisions of this agreement. I accept them voluntarily and promise to comply with all of them. | |||||||
10) GENERAL PROVISIONS | (a) Governing Law The validity, interpretation, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to the principles of conflict of laws. (b) Entire Agreement This agreement contains the entire understanding and agreement between me and Pinterest, regardless of any previous discussions we may have had. This agreement will apply regardless of any changes in my duties or compensation, and the terms of the agreement can’t be changed unless the changes are made in writing and we’ve both signed them. I understand that Pinterest can’t waive any of the rights, or give any of the permissions discussed in this agreement, unless it does so in writing through an authorized officer of the company and with proper approval from Pinterest’s Board of Directors. (c) Severability If any part of this agreement is found to be void or unenforceable, that part will remain enforceable to the maximum extent allowed by law, and the rest of the agreement won’t be affected. Pinterest and I have attempted to limit my right to use, keep and share Pinterest’s Confidential Information and to limit my right to solicit employees and customers only to the extent necessary to protect Pinterest from unfair competition. If a court decides that these restrictions are too broad, Pinterest and I want the court to rework, modify and enforce the restrictions in such way as to allow them legally in light of the circumstances at that time. | |||||||
(d) Successors and Assigns My heirs, executors, administrators and legal representatives, and my successors and assigns are also bound by this agreement. This agreement is for the benefit of Pinterest and its successors and assigns. (e) Remedies I recognize that violating this agreement could cause Pinterest irreparable harm. I therefore agree that Pinterest is entitled to seek extraordinary relief in court, for any violation of this agreement, including temporary restraining orders, and preliminary and permanent injunctions without the necessity of posting a bond or other security, in addition to any other remedies Pinterest might have. If a bond or security is required, I agree that a $1000 bond is adequate. (f) Advice of counsel I acknowledge that I’ve had the opportunity to get advice about this agreement from independent legal counsel. I’ve read and I understand all parts of this agreement, and agree the agreement won’t be construed against either party by reason of drafting or preparation. |
Sincerely, | ||||||||
/s/ Ben Silbermann | /s/ Evan Sharp | |||||||
Ben Silbermann, Co-Founder | Evan Sharp, Co-Founder | |||||||
Please sign below: | ||||||||
/s/ Christine Flores | ||||||||
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