{"id":117,"date":"2025-11-07T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:53:01","slug":"elon-musks-1-trillion-tesla-pay-plan-wins-shareholder-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/elon-musks-1-trillion-tesla-pay-plan-wins-shareholder-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Plan Wins Shareholder Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><strong>Elon Musk&#8217;s $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Plan Wins Shareholder Approval<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">On Thursday, CEO Elon Musk won shareholder approval for the largest corporate pay package in history as investors endorsed his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">The proposal was approved with over 75% support, and Musk bounded to the stage of the company&#8217;s\u00a0annual meeting at its factory in Austin, Texas, accompanied by dancing robots.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Musk, already the world&#8217;s richest person, could get as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade, although required payments would take the value down to $878 billion.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla&#8217;s<\/a> future and valuation were dependent on the vote, which hung in the balance as Musk pursues his vision of making self-driving vehicles, creating a robotaxi network across the <a href=\"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/the-us-and-indian-government-sign-10-year-defence-pact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S<\/a>., and selling humanoid robots, even though his far-right political rhetoric has hurt the Tesla brand this year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">The board warned he could leave if he didn&#8217;t get the pay package. Although some investors said it was incredibly exaggerated and unnecessary, many saw it as a way to retain Musk. They believed the goals set in the package would ensure shareholders were rewarded as well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">According to what Musk told the shareholders, &#8220;What we are about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla, but a whole new book.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">He then made a string of promises on stage\u2014from, in April, beginning production of the Cybercab, its 2-seater, self-driving robotaxi, to unveiling its next-generation Roadster electric sports car. He also said Tesla would need &#8220;a gigantic chip fab&#8221; to make <a href=\"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/us-chip-giant-nvidia-strikes-bumper-ai-deals-with-south-korea-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI chips<\/a> and should consider working with Intel.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Three directors were elected by the Shareholders to Tesla&#8217;s board, voted in favour of annual elections for all board members, and approved a replacement pay plan for Musk&#8217;s previous package, which is held up in court.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">&#8220;Other shareholder meetings are like snoozefests, but ours are bangers,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;I mean, look at this. This is sick.&#8221;Shareholders voted in favour of Tesla investing in Musk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/us-chip-giant-nvidia-strikes-bumper-ai-deals-with-south-korea-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> startup, xAI, though many abstained.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Plan Wins Shareholder Approval On Thursday, CEO Elon Musk won shareholder approval for the largest corporate pay package in history as investors endorsed his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut. \u00a0 The proposal was approved with over 75% support, and Musk bounded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}