Founder-controlled companies with rising CEO pay

Tools: screen_companies, then get_leadership per company · Calls: 1 plus one per company

Ask an assistant#Link to this section

Using Fundalyze, find founder-controlled US companies, then for the ten largest by revenue show the founder, how much of the vote they control, and the CEO's total pay for each of the last five years. Flag the ones where CEO pay rose every year, and mark any figure the data says may be inaccurate.

How the calls go#Link to this section

1. Screen. screen_companies takes a list of filters, each written as metric:min:max (leave min or max empty for an open end, for example founder_controlled:1: or ceo_total_pay::50000000), and returns only the companies that match. The metrics it accepts are public-record figures only, among them founder and control flags and CEO pay; the data dictionary lists their ids and units. Sort by revenue (sort_by) and keep the first few (limit).
2. Read each company's leadership. get_leadership with the ticker and years set to 5 returns the founders, their roles, whether the company is founder-led or founder-controlled, voting and economic stakes where known, the current CEO, and CEO pay by fiscal year from the proxy statement's summary compensation table.
3. Compare the pay series: the answer already holds the yearly totals, so "rising every year" needs no further calls.

Every parameter and field is on the screen_companies and get_leadership reference pages.

Read it carefully#Link to this section

• Some founder records are uncertain. Control and stakes come from filings and our own research; a low-confidence record says so in text ("may be inaccurate") and in data (confidence). Keep that marker when you pass the result on.
• Reported pay is not take-home pay. The summary compensation table values stock awards when granted; "compensation actually paid" (also in the answer) adjusts for what those awards became worth.
• Fiscal years differ between companies, as in the margins recipe.