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Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com)

Thelasko writes: "On Tuesday, Tesla's board announced that it had convinced Musk to stay at the helm for another decade with a truly gargantuan performance-based pay package," reports Ars Technica. The pay package is in a series of 12 milestones based on market capitalization.

[The report notes the possibility that Musk could get nothing for a decade's work as Tesla's CEO if the company's stock never rises above $100 billion. However, Musk will get awarded with $1 billion -- 1 percent of the company's stock -- if the stock reaches a value of $100 billion and the company either achieves revenues of $20 billion or earnings of $1.5 billion.] "If the stock rises to $150 billion (and Musk reaches another revenue or profit target), Musk gets another 1 percent of the stock, which will be worth $1.5 billion," reports Ars. "That pattern continues in $50 billion increments until Tesla's stock rises above $650 billion -- at which point Musk will get a stock award worth $6.5 billion. Musk's stock awards will total $45 billion if he hits all 12 milestones."

I guess Musk will have to wait to move to Mars until 2028...

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  1. Re:What is really interesting is the market cap by TFlan91 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tesla is more than just cars, and yes BMW is too, but Tesla is where it counts in the technological-sense. So investors are confident their investment will yield exponential returns from some new tech we havent seen or current/old tech we haven't seen utilized in a new way

  2. Re:Of course by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, he's not. It's a perfectly consistent position to believe that government subsidies for established fossil fuel companies are hurting the society and the environment, therefore lobby against them, but simultaneously use the subsidies available *to you* to build up a competitor that would obsolete said fossil fuel companies. Either one of those or both could do the trick, it's just hedging your bets.

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  3. Better than.. by h8sg8s · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Better than some executive pay packages where the company is downsized/destroyed then sold off for scrap while the CEO collects nearly $200 million in bonuses. Marissa Mayer, I'm talking to you.

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    Organization? You must be joking..