Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is back in focus. A clause buried inside Tesla’s CEO compensation agreement suggests that a future merger with his rocket company SpaceX could remove one of the biggest hurdles to the world\u2019s richest man\u2019s record-setting stock award. The agreement effectively has a “delivery problem” built into it: several of the package’s operational milestones disappear if Tesla is acquired, leaving the acquisition price to determine how much of the award Musk ultimately receives.
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Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is back in focus. A clause buried inside Tesla’s CEO compensation agreement suggests that a future merger with his rocket company SpaceX could remove one of the biggest hurdles to the world\u2019s richest man\u2019s record-setting stock award. The agreement effectively has a “delivery problem” built into it: several of the package’s operational milestones disappear if Tesla is acquired, leaving the acquisition price to determine how much of the award Musk ultimately receives. \u200b Tesla shareholders approved Musk\u2019s $1 trillion compensation package in 2025, with the potential value now estimated at about $824 billion due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028332,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028329\/revisions\/1028332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}