{"id":9251,"date":"2026-03-19T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:33:24","slug":"hostinger-distributes-13-6m-to-employees-through-its-long-running-stock-option-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/hostinger-distributes-13-6m-to-employees-through-its-long-running-stock-option-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger distributes $13.6M to employees through its long-running stock option program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Hostinger<\/a> has shared $13.6 million with its employees through a stock option program that dates back to 2017, giving staff who stayed through the company&#8217;s growth years a tangible share of what that growth produced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Roughly one in ten employees collected from this particular round. The rest hold options tied to future dates, meaning the program continues paying forward rather than closing out. CEO Daugirdas Jankus has talked about the reasoning openly: the company built something substantial over the past decade, and the people who showed up during the harder years deserve more than a congratulatory email when the numbers finally look like this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Those numbers tell a clear story on their own. <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/hostinger-posts-325m-in-2025-revenue-as-ai-integration-global-demand-fuel-continued-expansion\/\">Hostinger<\/a> finished 2025 with $316.7 million in revenue, a 51 percent increase from the year before. Its customer count went from 100,000 back in 2015 to 4.6 million by late last year, with a full 35 percent of that figure landing within the most recent 12 months. The Financial Times has recognized that pace of growth six years running through its FT 1000 list, and the FT and <a href=\"https:\/\/rankings.statista.com\/en\/fastest-growing-companies\/rankings\/long-term-growth-champions-europe-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Statista Long-term Growth Champions Europe 2026 ranking<\/a> placed Hostinger second overall among companies sustaining exceptional revenue growth across a full decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The team behind those results sits at around 900 people today, close to half of them working out of Lithuania. Even after a year like 2025, the company intends to bring on another 200 to 300 people before the year closes, with most of those roles centered on AI work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">That focus has already started showing up in real operational terms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/blog\/ai-agent-kodee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kodee<\/a>, the company&#8217;s AI assistant, fields more than 80 percent of incoming customer questions on its own and tackles over 350 technical tasks without any human stepping in, trimming more than $10.4 million from annual costs. Two newer tools serve the customer side directly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ph\/horizons?trk=brand_horizons&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_id=1599817411&amp;utm_campaign=Brand-Phrase|NT:Se|LO:PH&amp;utm_term=hostinger+horizons&amp;utm_content={searchterm}&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=1599817411&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADMy-hbcTqTbHK6nH4c24D7Wx-Ai6&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwve7NBhC-ARIsALZy9HUu17qWHTdhroC8YIOb2tE_2l2idUbJjpncbYEb86Ltl4BrhPMLV_IaAqLDEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Horizons<\/a> handles website and web application creation through a no-code setup, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11535404-hostinger-reach-subscription-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Reach<\/a> gives users an AI-driven path into newsletter marketing without requiring a dedicated team to run it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Starting a stock option program when a company is still unproven takes a certain kind of institutional confidence. Paying it out at this scale, nearly a decade later, suggests that confidence was not misplaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostinger has shared $13.6 million with its employees through a stock option program that dates back to 2017, giving staff who stayed through the company&#8217;s growth years a tangible share of what that growth produced. Roughly one in ten employees collected from this particular round. 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