Activision's Kotick set to get $400 million from Microsoft acquisition

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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick set to receive almost $400 million windfall payout from Microsoft sale after taking a massive pay cut last year amid company scandal

against the gaming giant, accusing the Call of Duty publisher of creating a"'frat boy' workplace culture" that is a"breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women."

According to the lawsuit, the company"allegedly fostered a sexist culture and paid women less than men despite women doing substantially similar work, assigned women to lower-level jobs, and promoted them at slower rates than men, and fired or forced women to quit at higher frequencies than men."he'd asked the company's board to reduce his overall annual compensation to $62,500 — the minimum allowed under California law — an over 99.

Even before the scandal last year, Kotick had received a 50% reduction to his base salary, according to a

 

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This is very misleading. He would have received 250-300 million anyways based on previous stock prices

动视暴雪首席执行官博比·科蒂克(Bobby Kotick)去年因公司丑闻大幅减薪后,将从微软的出售中获得近4亿美元的意外收入

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