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Initial Awards. Each Non-Employee Director who is initially elected or appointed to the Board after the Effective Date shall receive on the date of such initial election or appointment an option to purchase the lesser of # 122,527 shares of the Company’s common stock or # the largest whole number of shares of the Company’s common stock that results in such option having a Black-Scholes Value (as defined below) not exceeding $763,911. The awards described in this Section II(A) shall be referred to as “Initial Awards.” No Non-Employee Director shall be granted more than one Initial Award.

Initial Awards. Each Non-Employee Director who is initially elected or appointed to the Board after the Effective Date shall receive an option to purchase 79,750 shares of the Company’s common stock on the date of such initial election or appointment. The awards described in this Section II(A) shall be referred to as “Initial Awards.” No Non-Employee Director shall be granted more than one Initial Award.

Initial Awards. Each Non-Employee Director who is initially elected or appointed to the Board after the Effective Date shall automatically be granted, on the date of such initial election or appointment, an option (an “Initial Award”) to purchase 30,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (“Shares”). No Non-Employee Director shall be granted more than one Initial Award.

Subsequent Awards. A Non-Employee Director who # has been serving as a Non-Employee Director on the Board for at least six months as of the date of any annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders after the Effective Date and # will continue to serve as a Non-Employee Director immediately following such meeting, shall receive on the date of such annual meeting an option to purchase the lesser of # 61,264 shares of the Company’s common stock or # the largest number of whole shares of the Company’s common stock that results in such option having a Black-Scholes Value not exceeding $396,810. The awards described in this Section II(B) shall be referred to as “Subsequent Awards.” For the avoidance of doubt, a Non-Employee Director elected for the first time to the Board at an annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders shall only receive an Initial Award in connection with such election, and shall not receive any Subsequent Award on the date of such meeting as well.

Initial Grants. Upon initial election to the Board, each non-employee director will be granted, automatically and without the need for any further action by the Board, an initial equity award of an option to purchase the number of shares of our common stock that has a Black Scholes value as of the date of the grant equal to $719,754 (as calculated using the same methodology that the Company then uses to calculate the value of stock awards for purposes of the Company’s financial statements). The initial award shall have a term of ten years from the date of the award, and shall vest and become exercisable as to 2.7778% of the shares underlying such award at the end of each successive one-month period following the grant date until the third anniversary of the grant date, subject to the non-employee director’s continued service to the Company through each applicable vesting date. The vesting shall accelerate as to 100% of the shares upon a change in control of the Company. The exercise price of the option shall be the closing price of our common stock on the date of grant.

Initial Awards. Each Non-Employee Director who is initially elected or appointed to the Board shall receive an option to purchase 35,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and 12,000 RSUs under the Equity Plan, or any other applicable Company equity incentive plan then-maintained by the Company on the date of such initial election or appointment. The awards described in this Section 2(a) shall be referred to as “Initial Awards.” No Non-Employee Director shall be granted more than one Initial Award.

Initial Award: An initial, one-time equity award (the “Initial Award”) of an option to purchase 34,600 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), to each new Non-Employee Director (who is initially elected or appointed to the Board of Directors after the Effective Date (as defined below)) upon his or her election or

Subsequent Awards. A Non-Employee Director who # has been serving as a Non-Employee Director on the Board for at least six months as of the date of any annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders after the Effective Date and # will continue to serve as a Non-Employee Director immediately following such meeting, shall receive an option to purchase 39,875 shares of the Company’s common stock on the date of such annual meeting. The awards described in this Section II(B) shall be referred to as “Subsequent Awards.” For the avoidance of doubt, a Non-Employee Director elected for the first time to the Board at an annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders shall only receive an Initial Award in connection with such election, and shall not receive any Subsequent Award on the date of such meeting as well.

Upon initial election or appointment to the Board, each Non-Employee Director shall be granted an option to purchase shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock with an aggregate value of $770,000 on the date on which the Non-Employee Director’s service as a director begins. The initial option grant will be automatically granted, without further action, on the date on which the Non-Employee Director’s service as a director begins and will vest as to 1/36 of the shares on the first monthly anniversary of the grant date, with the balance of the shares vesting in 35 equal monthly installments thereafter, subject to the Non-Employee Director’s continued service through the vesting date.

Initial Award: An initial, one-time equity award (the “Initial Award”) of 70,200 options to each new non-employee director upon his or her election to the Board, which shall vest in thirty-six (36) equal monthly beginning on the date of grant, however, that all vesting shall cease if the director resigns from the Board or otherwise ceases to serve as a director of the Company. This Initial Award applies only to non-employee directors who are first elected to the Board subsequent to the Company’s initial public offering. If the Initial Award is in the form of a stock option, such stock option shall have a per share exercise price equal to the Fair Market Value (as defined in the Company’s 2018 Stock Option and Incentive Plan) of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant.

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