Ukrainian defense company UFORCE, which was recently valued at $6 billion, is launching an option program for all employees. The company hopes that employees will be able to use the money they receive to create their own startups.
UFORCE co-founder Oleh Rohynskyi told DOU about this. He claims that he had long dreamed of introducing vesting in Ukraine, that is, a mechanism under which employees gradually gain the right to company shares.
"Launching vesting in Ukraine is my long-time dream, because that is exactly how an ecosystem is built: people who have shared in one company's success subsequently create their own startups," Rohynskyi explains.
But, according to Rohynskyi, Ukrainian legislation is still not sufficiently adapted to such programs. Therefore, employees in Ukraine will not receive shares immediately, but the company will reserve them for employees for now so that they can exercise their right to a share in the future.
"Each team member will have the opportunity to receive them, and thousands of Ukrainians will deservedly share in the company's success," the co-founder claims.
Previously, dev.ua collected 10 interesting facts about UFORCE, which after attracting $700 million in investments was valued at $6 billion. They explained how the company plans to create a single robotic army of sea, land, and aerial drones, why it is recruiting engineers from Formula 1, and how its "Predator" turret was tested on a NATO frigate.