Tesla Offers Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package to Elon Musk

Ambivalent about this I both want him to drive Tesla to the ground, but also i don’t think he should get money out of it

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A Nazi who puts profits over safety…..are we in HELL?

In any other company the stock would tank 50% on this news. In a sane world the SEC/FBI would be raiding their offices and all the homes of the board members and everyone would be getting interviewed and offered deals to spill the beans. Anyone investing in Tesla/Musk at this point deserves to lose all their money. You know this guy is Bernie Madoff on steroids.

How is this possible? What is going on that i don't understand. I thought Tesla was tanking worldwide. They want to reward him for that?

That's more money than tesla has ever made since it's creation. The board is crazy.

This is equivalent to jumping the Megalodon surely? What a fucking joke of a company.

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The dumbest company in the world.

Not steroids. Ketamine.

The board do what he tells them to do.

Expanding from 0 to.... 0?

I want to see all the shareholder lose their money to this ass

It’s in here: [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925087598/tm252289-4\_pre14a.htm](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925087598/tm252289-4_pre14a.htm) This is basically a love letter to Elon. It’s a cult. EDIT: they even say he's one of the founders 😂

Use to be a fan. Am in tech and wanted wife to drive a Tesla (I need a truck to tow boat / jeep). That ship sailed. The product of Tesla is the stock. Everything they do is just to hype up the stock. Fuck Elon.

So grift overload in-coming. What about *actual* sales. *Actual* profit.

Can index funds drop this joke by citing a lack of corporate governance?

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

Stock actually jumped up a bit. Pure meme-stock...

The board consists of his relatives and close friends.

Make it two bazillion and you got yourself a deal.

Tesla since its founding has made roughly $90 billion in total profit across the years 2010-2025.

According to this article, it’s as much as its entire current market cap.

They really are doing everything they can do pump this stock. I'm guessing the ideas behind this is that idiots will see the number 8.5 trillions, and think that "Ooh! Insiders think Tesla will be worth *8.5 trillions or more* in 10 years! That's like 25% increase per year! I knew it Tesla is a good investment!!1" or some shit like that.

Cult

lol Yet another announcement that makes me glad I sold my model S. honestly baffling

How stupid can you be?

The only job the board has is figuring out how to pay Elon as much as possible.

What does baggies think about this?

They stay with the tradition of paying the CEO a multiple of what they ever gonna earn. Very normal things.

If my math is correct, Tesla would need to grow at about a rate of 75% every year for the next ten years. Which, isn’t impossible, but I find very unlikely considering its growth since 2020. Edit: I should have said “750% over the next ten years” instead.

What has Musk done for Tesla lately?

Enron Musk.

This is not the onion?

To 0.0000000001

It’s not possible either

So, share prices up?

He did acquire the right to call himself founder, in court 😂 Such a narcissist

And somehow the stock will go up 25% on the news that investors will get diluted by 50%. Clearly Elon has found a way to keep the stock price artificially high. He will somehow figure out a way to hit all these goals beings they will only revolve around the stock price. They will never revolve around metrics like delivered cars or profit.

Wasn’t his last pay deal was also more than the company’s lifetime profits.

They just had their steepest quarterly revenue drop in over a decade. What a joke. Anyone who continues investing in this company deserves whatever.

Wait... I thought Elon was a friend of humanity who was only driven by his desire to protect the future of humankind. Was I wrong?

Profit or revenue?

It's like money isnt real... you just need to sell a lie and keep selling that lie. I dont know how he has avoided jail when people like Holmes sold a lie 1/10000th the size of fElons long list of lies.

He has friends?

yup

For comparison, in 2024 GM had an annual profit of $23.4 billion. Tesla does not make much money, and has not been profitable for the majority of its existence.

And?

Putin, the Saudi’s and China want to thank musk for destroying America

He only get paid if he achieved goals .If not he will get nothing

I cant even compute that number.

Teslaberry.

Yeah, they're called sycophants.

You misspelled sycophants

Psychopaths

Part of me agrees, but then he gets more money, and that makes me sad.

You mean it's more money than Tesla have ever received in government handouts and subsidies.

How did you calculate 50%.. Isn't it 12%. 12% is still a huge amount of dilution but can you explain how you got to 50%?

It kind of feels like they see the way the winds are blowing and are trying to cash out before their house of cards collapses.

Take away carbon credits and government subsidies, the truth is they've lost money.

I don't think the share holders care since 8.5 trillion is still a ways off. If it hits 8.5 trillion they would be multiples more wealthy.

Stock up on the great news.

Based on his performance in the past years he should be replaced but they are giving him a raise... But what do I know I'm retarded?

He shouldn't need to be paid this much. He already owns a ton of stock that will appreciate in value if he reaches the target. He doesn't need another compensation package.

Interesting. Tesla market cap looks to be only $1 Trillion. That is 100% of company worth in the stock marker valuation.

It doesnt have that money to pay him. Total fraud of a company.

I don't know where you're getting that number or how you're calculating but it's definitely wrong for GAAP earnings. They weren't profitable at all on an annual basis until 2020 and since then they've made $40B through 2024 and a piddly $1.5B thus far this year. Of that number around $5B was just a tax credit value recognition too and not really representative of operational earnings. Using Tesla's own 'adjusted earnings' metric that completely ignores their very substantial stock based compensation expense you could maybe bump that up another $20B but it'd still be well short of $90B.

The levels of dumb are so off the chart. They deserve each other

Only **19** countries have more GDP than this. He would be on par with Saudi Arabia. Capable of buying hallf of Brazil or Canada.

This will just incentivize more smoke and mirrors on his part. It’s a sick joke that Tesla’s slogan is about helping the world transition to clean energy, when the true goal is to just pump the stock price and have Musk and his family/friends - who clearly don’t take sustainability seriously - pocket all of the gains.

That was my first thought

It's pretty much what the company is valued at today.

Can we change the name of the company to Trollsa?

Psychophants

They know hyperinflation is coming :)

You are right. I misread the site I got the data from. It was gross profit not net profit.

They are gonna kill this company. Why are people becoming stupid

As I understand the Tesla board of directors is stuffed with his cronies and family members, who I’m sure are also getting a payout (albeit smaller than Elon). They’re sacrificing their shareholders and the financial health of the company to enrich themselves.

Dude is high on ketamine

Psychopants

What a joke, the company will never be worth 8 trillion. Tesla is a memestock and this adds to the hype

And the scam goes on... Unbelievable. I hope Tesla dies some day soon.

Probably why the stock is being artificially pumped pre-market. To get the shareholders onboard. Thought there also was a class action lawsuit from the shareholders.

Besides grotesquely destroying its brand value through partisanship and deliberate political chicanery? Not a whole lot..

Does this compensation and pay package affect their overall margin. If it does, that’s a big hit to that.

Is this some kind of out-of-season April Fool's joke?

The targets are most probably unreachable save for many miracles which means it is in the boards beast interest to keep the share price as inflated as possible for as long as possible. Elon is clearly selling a good game and being given the ultimate incentive - To become a Trillionaire.

Lol

Tesla's combined lifetime revenue is about $430 billion. So this is more than twice it's lifetime revenue (never mind profit)

Sure, offer it to him. There’s no way he’ll hit those benchmarks.

and over double the lifetime revenue of Tesla

Not bad for a part time gig. It always makes me giggle when i see something about how it’s important to keep Musk around. Best thing could happen to Tesla is for him to rid off into the sunset.

The only thing keeping them alive is that the gov tariffs Chinese EV's so much that no one can buy them. The minute you lift those tariffs, China EVs flood America and Tesla dies within a year. Tesla is basically a state-protected company.

They are paid generous board fees to be his friends.

Helps to own the board. Shareholders should sue to block but most are Musk fanboys. Of note: Only two companies reached a worth $4 trillion - Microsoft and nVidea. Yet somehow Musk is worth 1/4 of them despite literally all aspects of Tesla on the decline and no indication they have a plan to fix that besides robot demos that require puppet masters to pull off and self driving cars that need drivers.

We don't do that here anymore. We're pricing in concepts of profits.

I thought they were mad at him for tanking the sales with his foray into politics. What’s he going to do with a trillion dollars that he can’t already do with $400 billion? Greed makes people stupid.

Well at the moment it's more of a normal taxi business with teslas.

This pay package is for his next Optimus dream, after that MARS colony

$ to leave?

As a Tesla employee, I'm disgusted

Sycopants

This time it's over 2x its entire lifetime revenue and 40x its lifetime profits.

The ridiculous part to me is that Tesla *could* be great, and incredibly valuable (in real terms). All that needs to happen is ditch fElon and bring in an actual business leader; someone with plenty of experience running a company like this and a history of wise decision making. Focus on not cutting corners on QC, emphasizing safety, and listening to customer feedback, and more importantly, the feedback of their own employees/experts. An end to designing on the whim of a literal madman. I think people would absolutely flock to a Tesla under better ownership.

Sycophants and co-conspirators so you pillage and plunder with limited oversight and ZERO CONSEQUENCES

I would have been at least a 2x owner of Tesla and maybe additional products (solar roof etc) but will never own a Tesla product on principle because of Elon…I have to think I’m not alone…so the decision to keep Elon associated seals the deal.

What’s weird is it’s to entice him to stay. That means every car will have a self defense system that will hit a car with Harris/Waltz bumper stickers to eradicate WOKENESS

Pants

Why stop there? Why not make it trillions of dollars? Heck why not make it trillions of dollars in gold bars?

Tbf, the stock has grown over 1,900% the last ten years. I don’t see it growing 750% the next ten though.

It’s theoretically possible that I could have dinner with Keanu Reeves tonight but that ain’t happening either.

I put 0 thought in it and threw out a number. Figured I’d keep things in the same realm as Teslas stock price. And a 12% dilution might as well be 50, lol. That’s crazy and anyone that owns that stock at this point is owning it while being completely detached from reality and factual numbers anyways.

Wow, $1 trillion is like infinity dollars for every robotaxi they'll ever sell.

I have loved my Tesla but have hated what he turned it into so much I won't do it again. There are other options out there. If he's still attached to the company it won't be my next vehicle.

Tesla will show a loss for Q4 which will grow into far major losses for 2026. At some point the bubble will pop and Tesla being valued at 1 trillion will be a pipe dream.

In the case of Norways swf, no. They prioritize adherence to index over governance guidelines.

I agree

I cannot for the life of me understand the appeal of these cars or this company. It makes money despite itself.

And I thought I heard the Tesla toilet flushing. I guess those turds must be too big to go down.

Pay him his trillion if it’s tied to Profitability not Revenue. A trillion might be worth it if he’s bringing in trillions in profits…but of course he’s not.

If you own stock in Tesla you are a moron. lol. Any company that would shift that much in resources into the ceo is corrupt and now working in the best interest of the company and or the investors

Shocked

And baby-mamas.

Anyone who doesn't know that this pay package is entirely Elon's idea is clueless

I’m sure the stock price will jump another 10% on this news…

Elon told the board to make him an offer he can't refuse

That's more than 10% of the projected market cap.... These people are insane.

Would they? Even after you account for the inflation it would take to get there, combined with the dilution of giving Dipshit that much more equity?

Yes please

Not bad for a part time side hobby.

Tesla is worth $1T today. In 10 years, if the company grows in value to $8.5T, Musk's compensation would be $1T. So he'd get about 15% of the upside for his job as CEO. BTW, if the company is worth $1T in 10 years, he gets nothing. It's not a terrible idea.

Let me know if he has to give stocks back if Tesla doesn’t meet these marks.

The stock meeds to rise 10 fold and he gets 10% in return this is a good deal for an investor

Well with these 50% tarrifs, lol. However, no inflation is like 2-3% a year on average so about 34.4% over 10 years not 800% (700% with dilution). I don't even think tarrifs will make it 800% high in 10 years. Imagine buying a home now for 1 million and it being worth 8 million in 10 years.

Don't forget releasing the 21st century version of the Edsel

I'm wondering if not being possible is the point. Like Elon is bugging them to give him yet another raise, and they are giving him one that is in theory only to get him off their backs.

No, just sycophants.

Oh wow they are also planning to funnel cash to him by “investing” in xAI with Tesla money.

It’s funny you say that bc I only recently realized this is an actual business method. The high rise I work in is largely empty, but they won’t lower rents bc they want to tell shareholders they are getting top dollar rents. At some point, doesn’t it have to translate to actual dollars, though? Capitalism is so fucked.

>Company highlights: Leading the world in AI + Robotics Building a safer, cleaner, more enjoyable world for all That's an impressive amount of bullshit. And in a damn SEC filing even.

i want to see this get approved just for the laugh and giggles

Wahahahaaaaa sorry I'm out I'm out of breath.

To be fair, it's a hard word to spell. I'd spell it sikofintz would be my choice if it were up to me.

That’s infinite growth!

They are paying Elon to keep on lying to prop up the stock price💩

He makes index investing dangerous.

the fact that pay package focuses on market value of company and not profits shows how this company is a stock manipulation company that also makes other things.And this con man being master manipulator.

We live in a world based on imaginary numbers. Besides the bombing of innocent people Uni Bomber was right.

No, Musk just sees Tesla as his ATM and since his new hobby is spaceflight, he takes money from the ATM to finance his hobby. And the board is hand-picked by him and depends on him.

Teslas board is full of actual idiots if they think he can pull off any of those benchmarks. Elon musk is a drug addled embarrassment.

The peak of Tesla was a gross profit of $20 **billion** per annum. So that’s 50 years of the outlier best year for Tesla

Well, to be fair, GDP is not price of a country.

Culottes

If they're making things up, they should pay him in gold-pressed latinum. It keeps the "future/space" delusions tangible. They could make invention of latinum a condition of the payout. Is there anything the man-boy can't do?!

I’ve never seen a company actually commit suicide.

A real board wouldn’t give this guy more money, they would be busy looking for his replacement.

The shareholders are equally as crazy.

That’s to increase the stock price by 10x. If he can do that he’s worth it. Ain’t going to happen. Unless inflation goes up by 20x.

If you have not dumped your Tesla stock this is the clearest sign yet it is time to do so.

Bingo. They're counting on the market performance of TSLA to keep all of them immune from prosecution.

[Actual photo of Tesla's board](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fxx2pooaeryf11.jpg) The scale of the nonsense here should make any serious investor understand that there is nobody competent or honest at the helm, that this is purely a way to pump the stock before it takes its place next to the Titanic and the pink mist of Stockton Rush and his gullible "crew".

By moving the goalposts and making bigger promises, Tesla can keep the grift going. Forever.

I bet I could do a better job than Mr. Musk.

Imagine bribing Elon to STAY anywhere.

This guy gets it.

A typical occurrence in corporate America unfortunately.

and the stock goes up

It’s more than that. He’s an extreme danger to freedom and democracy. Not to mention morality, humanity and basic decency.

ah, the USA government method

No persons time and attention is worth anywhere near that.

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Best financial decision of my life was to buy Tesla stock. Second best was to sell it all for a profit and walk away from that dumpster fire clown show.

So far teslas gross revenue, all time, since starting sales, is less than half that at 436 billion. Gross revenue mind you, not profit.

They were leading in EV 5 years ago, but they dropped the ball to pursue robotaxi and Optimus. And what’s worse is that EV isn’t a solved problem yet, range is still a blocker for many (I’m a fan of EV, but I still stick to PHEV due to it), and they were in the best position to solve it before the competition. Now it will probably come from China in the next few years. And even worse, they dropped the ball to go after products where several competitors are already doing better than them. Their only narrative is “oh but we’ll be cheaper and scale better when it will work”.

That's more than 10% projected market cap.

Ludicrous

They said they did it as an incentive to make him work harder.

Never gonna reach those goals.

Where exactly in here does it mention $1T pay package to Elon? I scrolled/scanned it for awhile, but couldn’t find anything about it.

I guess the board of directors isn’t exactly looking to bump him out of the CEO spot.

Why not a gazillion?

Crazy Britches

Tesla needs to incentivize Musk to leave.

I think it’s extrapolated if the market cap goes to $8T, which is the condition to get the full package. Essentially he gets x shares every trillion of added market cap. It’s so stupid I feel an idiot writing this.

This is a breach of the fiduciary duty by the board of directors.

You should love that it’s performance based, including operational milestones such as Tesla reaching $400b/year in EBITDA profit. Since Elon is a complete incompetent clearly these milestones will never be reached and this pay package will be realized. That sucker will be working for free.

Psychonauts

Tesla is worth $1.1T as of this morning. They are going to hand over 91% of the value of the company to the guy who slaughtered the firm’s European market?

Well played!

Why would you even bother posting a number without confirming it’s net vs gross? Kind of a big difference.

and this is nothing more than becoming the world's first trillionaire for vanity purposes

The board help him pump the stock. They sell high while he gets high.

This is crazy. I mean, even if Tesla grows to an 8.5 trillion market cap, which is already insane on its own, they're really gonna pay the CEO 1/8th of the entire company's value? That's fucking bonkers. What is going on in this timeline. I swear nothing makes any sense.

To be fair 1 guy owning more money than 7.8 billion people for a scam isn't very fair.

With all the competition in every field that he’s in there’s no possible way for him to get there ever ever ever ! Ever …

Does he still add value? Save $900b and drop him, hire a ceo focused on creating a successful business, not a map of dreams

Fucking what?! This is disgusting. While so many are in need.

Psycho pants. Brotherhood of the traveling psycho pants

Nazis are expensive.

In all honesty, I do appreciate that it's tied to performance. I like to think he's reached the end of the point where lies and cult of personality can drive things, but I'm often disappointed by human behavior.

The board is compromised.

With the dumbest investors!

Some people get caught for their crimes and frauds and end up in jail or broke. Some people escape and become President or the richest man in the world.

Lied about stuff, and selling fantasies and dreams. As a result of the public buying his stories, the stock is now valued about 20x higher than other auto companies like GM and Ford, despite having about half the sales.

The only way TSLA hits those numbers is hyperinflation

Don't you know, pump it up You got to pump it up Don't you know pump it up You've got to pump it up Don't you know, pump it up You got to pump it up Don't you know pump it up You've got to pump it up

Worst company I’ve ever worked for by miles

Does this let him borrow against it? Tesla can’t even pay their vendors the $110M owed, and is burning through the cash servicing their debt. The only reason I see for such nonsense is to borrow against it to keep the game going a little longer. Why have many top insiders left and sold everything? 😎

> sets a series of ambitious benchmarks From a guy that has never hit any of the previous ones

> ever made For clarity - ever grossed. Made implies profit.

They need to pass a law that just forces anyone to suck him off, it wouldn't be any stupider

Tesla can’t afford it

Elon Musk controls his board. Period.

The Edsel sold much better

None of them can be a sycofriend like Agent Stone.

This is obviously completely unhinged. But it's also very scary, because this means they are going to do everything they can to pump this to $8.5 trillion. This will be the biggest scam of the 21st century.

Not even a trillion dollars is enough money to buy the best lawyers in the entire galaxy when the next administration finally goes after you for rigging the 2024 election.

Musk is just trying to get ahead of the hyperinflation that's coming.

We live in Hell.

Get rid of it asap.

Sociopaths, he hasn’t killed anybody yet

Best advertising ever for every other EV company.

The board yearns for a Cybertruck V2.

Oh, and all he has to do is grow the company 8x at a time they're losing market share and suffering major sales declines in many markets? Every journalist parroting this "trillion dollar pay package" line should be ashamed of themselves. It ain't real.

Syscofans

I mean, his first pay package was more than Tesla ever made as profits, so it’s nothing new

Each tranche requires Tesla to meet both a market cap goal and a performance goal. The first couple performance goals are stupidly easy, though, e.g. 20 million cumulative car sales. So he has to sell 12m cars over the next 10 years. That's 1.2m per year, down from 1.8m the past couple years.

I felt the same...in 2018

To be fair, they do have targets for revenues and deliveries

Obscene

Genius-level stuff. It’s not for any of us to understand.

You got downvoted for explaining the math. I'll take an 8x return over 10 years.

Barring a currency collapse / hyperinflation scenario shareholders would do great at 8.5T even after dilution.

Teslas with stickers on the side!

Psychonauts

Those fucking people are goddamn insane. How can they even make that happen mathematically? Is it actually possible?

Well about 7x with dilution... What did math ever do to you. Anyway I guess you'll downvote again since math and all.

+4%

They let him treat TSLA as privately held, like all his other companies. Just a piggybank to be tapped as needed, screw the shareholders. There are dozens of companies with better robots. And no one opposed to fascism will buy his robot.

for 1y\*, im osrry.

Are you kidding me

Eventually Tesla is not going to sell anything. It's just going to be a shell company for investors to give Elon trillions of dollars in packages every year. What he does with that money that keeps them all coming back? I have no idea. But what exactly is the business model that is making them all wanna just throw money at the world's biggest douchebag? It's not selling cars at the rate it used to, so what are they investing in?

They really need to fire that asshole.

Yeah. This guy is going to grow thst shitshow 8x in ten years. Robotax ain’t gonna get em there. What’s the value of all taxi companies in all the world? I could see a demand for robo heli-taxis, but I would never get in one designed by that company.

He's literally the main reason for Tesla's downfall. Turns out having a drug addicted Nazi makes a bad CEO.

This business needs to end. This is too much money for one person. Fuck that Nazi POS.

This is a company that has no governance. The indexes need to drop it.

The board proposed it then got rejected. Then Elon Musk can prove the board is fair and doesn't be controlled by him. You all know Elon. He is smart and knows the strategy.

But Elon Musk has fans who worship like him like God. Without Elon, TSLA share price might be only in double digits. THEY HAVE TO PAY HIM.

One trillion dollar payout is too much. Maybe it is a negotiating technique. Elon might only want 15% or 25% of the amount he asked.

Can’t wait for the teslatanic goes down with you know who at the helm

Why not 2 trillion?

There's no dodging the Dr. Evil comparisons anymore.

No way this shit company is worth 1T

Fuck Elon Musk

Well, Tesla won't be 8 times as valuable in 10 years. Tesla will be bankrupt and out of business in 10 years.

Oh for fucks sake

I think is because they expect to sell more AI products and robots, but knowing Elon probably he won’t merge those companies but separate them and use each as collateral

In roughly the same period of time since teslas founding, Toyota produced over 200 million cars.

Is Tesla no longer a serious company? Did MAGA infiltrate the board of Tesla? The man wrecked the brand. I sold my Tesla because of this man’s actions and I’ll be damned if I buy another with him at the helm. What an incompetent and impotent board Tesla has.

Probably. I just don’t see $7 trillion pouring into a single company over the next ten years, especially this one lol.

>The board is crazy. He is crazy, they're not. The board knows they can't make a dime off Tesla selling cars. All the money is in the perception of the stock. The bonus is in shares, it is ten years down the road, and it is predicated on achieving certain operating and stock performance targets. While Elon is there, the hype factor props up the stock, giving board members time to offload shares legally. If he fails, he gets little or nothing at the end of ten years, while they get to offload shares the entire time. If he succeeds, he gets richer, so does the board.

People are fucking dumb

That’s insane, Tesla is a bubble.

Can a CEO vulture capital their own company?

Will he pay income taxes on this? A: no fucking way

Why not a bazillion. Tesla is 🐶 💩

They watched Alien: Earth and wanted to usher in the existence of the world's first trillionaire.

I have a question for this sub. Why would you be against it? If you think it's crazy and not possible, then Elon gets nothing. If Tesla does reach these milestones. Something crazy has happened....

Does anyone rich truly have friends? How would they know?

Sounds like everyone is about to abandon ship.

Why not spread that money towards your employees instead that actually benefit your company

Sell

Because it's based on stock price which makes manipulating the price a very attractive option for Musk, something he's already done to achieve his previous massive payout.

Dude has such the hard on to be the first trillionaire

It’s paid in stock, which will eventually crash, so it’s actually a lot less.

same party that has dummys complaining about raising minimum wage.

You say that but he'll find another way to leverage or sell those shares to screw up the democratic process, free press or some other important aspect of society.

I was hoping this was "please fuck off and stop damaging our brand by association" bribe to make him step down as CEO. Why can't we have nice things?

Only hitting $8.5T if we have run away hyperinflation for the next ten years

Pretty much exactly it. Musk has pumped the stock as far as he can directly so he's pushing for this because some amount of people will think the board is still made of serious and rational individuals who really must believe that Tesla is close to achieving all this stuff if they're willing to pay Musk so much money to see it through. However dumb you might think TSLA's retail shareholders are, you're likely still giving them too much credit. Adam Jonas and Dan Ives will up their valuations by another $500B overnight based upon this. Kathy Wood will publish some bullshit model saying a share price of $10k is reasonable in a bullish scenario. FOMO will hit hard and people will pile into options and squeeze shorts and before you know there will be hundreds of billions of dollars in extra market cap materializing out of nowhere.

Ketamine and the other drugs must be expensive for the amounts that guy is absorbing into his body every single day!

His mom Cruella is his only one.

Just stop buying them

How fed up does the board have to be to offer $1 trillion. He'll turn it down. It's all ego with him

Time to cash out for Elon? Great news for the stock holders and Tesla...

Tesla doesn't make cars. Tesla makes stock prices. That's why this compensation offer is tied to company valuation (i.e. stock price) rather than to profit.

Schitzdapants

They elected Dr. Evil to the board apparently. “One GazillionTrillion dollars.”

psychopomps

Sign #6969420 that we're in the biggest equity market bubble in history

So stockholders, still happy?

Like actually $20 or is that at typo??? 😱 I know they make most of their money from carbon credit programs from other companies but what even is that?!

Anyone still buying in to Tesla at this point deserves to be robbed. Investment is risky anyway and its been a 5 alarm fire for a while now.

Patrick Boyle has a good video on the issue Tesla is facing. Teslas stock is dependent on two different things - the current market they are operating in and the speculative technologies their investing in. The issue with the later is that its largely driven by faith in Musk. The problem has become the more Tesla looses revenue in the current or soon to be current markets, the more it relies on Musks ability to sell investors on speculative technologies, which means Musk is more and more able to consolidate power and have yhe board  pay him with more stocks. Which means that Musk is reward when Tesla does badly

They must really want him gone

BYD, Chery Motors et al, have no comment.

🤣

I mean after seeing how advanced the Optimus robot was in that leaked video don't you think he's earned it?

As normal, the Reddit population are your typical crabs in a bucket...

666 up votes. It's a sign. PS he won't meet any of the performance targets. They'll pay him anyway

Why not a zillion?

Elon Musk should be in federal prison for fraud, not handed $1T USD.

Why? He is a liability. Plus it's BS anyway.

He basically owns a fictional company that claims he's worth a zillion dollars which then makes him money, our financial systems appear to be completely broken

1 trillion? I don't think that's enough tbh.

Nobody is worth that much money, especially when his job can probably be done better by an LLM

I guess he can buy all the other car companies and then shut them down? 🤔

Wait why the fuck is the world's richest man getting our tax dollars but we still have a homeless and healthcare epidemic. And he calls us the parasite class. When do we eat him?

His cars have literally killed multiple people and actively imperil anyone on the road near them especially the cyberjunk

money (or the US$) is worthless. this is all that you are seeing.

I still dont understand how people don’t know this. Most people I know think that tesler is just a normal company, they don’t realize it died years ago and now it’s just elmo&friends.

Assuming he doesn't hit the benchmarks he gets nothing, right? If he grows the company market cap to $8.5T than fine, pay him a trillion, but if it is still at $1T he deserves nothing.

Absolute insanity.

Didn't massive widespread delusion fueled by unchecked greed like this also lead to the 2008 financial crisis? What a shame if it happened again and it was all Elon's fault.

Before Musk Tesla was nothing more than a thought bubble. It had no money, no product and didn't even own the Tesla trademark.

The only area where Tesla ever had a lead was drivetrains and software. In every other aspect they were sub-par.

Watch him miss the benchmarks and still get paid

Holmes embarrassed some very powerful people. Musk made them rich. Big difference.

$TSLA overhyped for so long and overvalued than many other competitors, lately loosing credibility and fading loyal customer base, how in the world making it $8T+ company? Is it really possible?

Well i dont know, but from a final product PoV Tesla was definitely far ahead back then. I bought my car in 2018, i looked for full EV and the only serious options where I leave were Tesla, the Nissan Leaf, and the Renault Zoe. And tesla was clearly in another league back then. Still I fell back on a PHEV because range wasn’t good enough.

The likes of Kathy wood and creamer guy and others promoted so long, but now missing bases

Difference between psychopath and sociopath is not about killing someone.

How can I get a job to be a top earning scammer too??

What does this mean for the stock?? Surely share dilutions?!

I can design shitty, worthless vehicles for half that amount. Hire me.

I will short Tesla I think. This is preposterous. Beyond preposterous. Like the Onion or something.

Yall really picked the ass timeline

This is insane. How can they justify this? I know the board is controlled by toadies picked by Melon Husk, but how can they even think they can justify this to the shareholders?

He’s bought the best friends.

Why stop at $1 trillion though? I mean, we are already deep in la-la, fantasy land territory with this absolute buffon. Why not offer all the money to infinity and back, pinky swear?

Guess who controls the board and everyone on it?

A trillion dollar pay package? For what? For running a federally-subsidized Ponzi scheme into the ground while treating his workers like disposable machinery and calling it "innovation"? This isn't just a reward for failure; it's a grotesque parody of capitalism itself. This man has built his empire on the backs of exploited labor, fighting unions at every turn, all while pocketing billions in government subsidies that were paid for by the very American taxpayers he holds in contempt. And let's not forget the most sinister part: hiding every single Tesla crash statistic behind proprietary data blackboxes. He's literally putting PR over public safety, ensuring no one can truly hold him accountable for the real-world consequences of his half-baked "Full Self-Driving" experiments. The company shouldn't even be called Tesla. It's an insult to a real visionary. They should be called Edison's Shitboxes—a more fitting tribute to a man who specializes in taking credit, stealing ideas, and delivering dangerous, overhyped products. Deport this fraud back to South Africa. Let him run his apartheid-era labor practices somewhere else. The American people are done funding his ego trip.

How’s Tesla doing these days? Business wise?

How about pay him less and invest more into the actual product? If Tesla can make a car to beat BYD at their own game, than fine. Mainly a good, affordable EV for everyone. Maybe not "cheap" but a very good value. Enough to halt the regression into ICE that is happening. Maybe then the world will get a most unwelcomed trillionaire then. That or Tesla's board figures they will go down the tubes long before Elon ever sees this payday.

God! Yes, I wish we could pick which companies to exclude from index funds just based on morality never mind Musk’s house of cards.

They are only rich if they sell their shares on a high.. At some point this big bubble will burst and he will make a lot of people poor... rich and poor alike.

Yep, that’s pretty much it

I mean, bribing/buying global governments is pretty expensive…

Pathetic, idiotic, and blatantly corrupt

No one cares about this fucking nazi outside of his death!

Bold bet that all the negative consumer sentiment toward him will fade.

"Elon's captive board obeys his directive to "offer" him a $1 TRILLION pay package" fixed it for you

Where would this money even come from?? The company isn't worth that much.

and they've been dumping $TSLA by the tens to hundreds of millions

It's also based on operational milestones so....

I mean yeah, but it's not like he isn't already insanely rich. I don't think this will change his life that much compared to the idiots that are the shareholders agreeing to this.

do you realize that to get that money he needs to achieve tasks most people would consider impossible? its goal is basically to get Musk to be more motivated for Tesla to get all of it he needs to take tesla to 8.5 trillion dollars valuation from current valuation of 1 trillion, basically asking musk to 8.5x their entire money in the company. also he needs Tesla to have ebitda of 400 billion dollars, 20 million car deliveries, which is possible, but also 1 million robots and 1 million robotaxi on roads and factories.

he will get the entirety of this package if he manages to get Tesla have a adjusted profit of 400 billion dollars, so like 2.5 years in a hypothetical scenario. they're not giving him free money, they're asking him to make them free money out of air if he wants those rewards.

Tesla has never made more than $20b per annum, and it makes less than that now, how is that 2.5 years?

Let’s open the market to paying the trillion to anyone who can get Tesla to reliably provide good and useful product to the market. I’m thinking maybe stainless steal cookware or maybe toothpaste . Something that lets the company practice distributing goods in leu of promises. Also, let’s start charging Elon stock and currency when the company fails to provide anything he promises.

If Tesla stocks crash though, so does his value. I don’t ever think he will be even hurt financially to the point of having means to live within. Money will always be an abstract concept he obsesses over despite never having to concern himself with

He basically has to do nothing but not leave Tesla for this package to kick in. It’s a Ponzi scheme. https://youtu.be/W8HEjee20V0?si=BaQZI91x8KantaVv

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Hey careful man your gonna be called a dick rider for informing everyone he took a failing company and idea and made himself and others extremely rich and pushed other car companies including ones that only exist due to bailouts towards EV production and yet somehow the legacy car companies can’t seem to get it right with EVs, but yea Musk is a big stupid dummy who’s stupid and dumb. P.S. If they do just remind them how they rode his dick like a carousel before he expressed unpopular political opinions like free speech on American Social Media Platforms.

“No one man should have all that power”. - Kanye West.