Call his bluff.

They might regain the public's respect if they don't give in. Fuck him.

They have nothing significant in the pipeline and zero prospects of ever generating a trillion dollars of profits.

Yes, Musk wants to be paid in stock rather than cash. That doesn't really change things,. It just means the shareholders will eventually lose most of their share value.

he is just looking for a way to cash out his stock and run before it crashes........

She's valiantly trying to outdo Trump sycophants like Scott Bessent, Kristi Noem, and that irrelevant Faux Nooz personality who purportedly runs the Department of Defense, I forget his name.

Dump the asshole and coast on the trillion dollars you'll save until the stink of his reputation fades and you become profitable again.

(They won't be smart)

Give me 0.1% per year of what Nasty Smell wants and I show you how attentive I can be to running Tesla. In fact I would probably be more attentive than that illegal immigrant has ever been.

He ought to pay Tesla for the harm he has done them.

I'd quit too.

Give me 0.1% per year of what nasty smell wants, and I'll show you how attentive I can be at running Tesla. It is obvious that Nasty Smell doesn't give a fig about a business he stole from the actual founders.

He is a drugged out nutcase white supremacist.

if that answer is "more than can be made or delivered before i want more money" ..............

and probably in the long term too.

and get their sales going in a positive direction. But my guess is he gets the money and maintains his weird cult-of-personality management style currently killing the company.

Just so I can vote against it!

A trillion dollars comes to more than $7,500 for every US household, or about $4,000 per adult.

Including the immigrants? Ballparking of course...

Can you please give us that number? ❤️

a trillion dollars would come to $2,879 per person.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states

Europe, Asia.

in fact, it's a win for Tesla.

Where is the downside of that arrangement?

… and Musk has a case of it for the ages. He and his tame board have convinced themselves that his businesses have no future without the force of his vision and personality. In fact, the opposite is true. They’re choking with the effort of compensating for the bad decisions he’s making, seemingly on a daily basis. I think his investors would be relieved if Elon departed, and they had the opportunity to hire a sane person in his stead.

He’s not the first executive to fall victim to the syndrome, and he won’t be the last. But expecting him to recognize and correct his own eccentric behavior is like waiting for a drunk on a binge to suddenly decide he’s had enough, and it’s time to get sober.

He single handedly turned off much of his customer base in the US (did he think MAGAts would suddenly rush out to buy EVs?). His Nazi antics turned away Europe altogether.

People forget that Musk wasn’t even the founder, or a founder for that matter. He was added after his major investment. I’m not saying the company would have survived without his investment. It likely was pivotal and they eventually were able to shift from making it a novelty based off a Lotus sports car to an actual mass produced vehicle.

But that was also before Musk went completely insane, got hooked on ketamine, and decided to dedicate a chunk of his life’s fortune to fascism.

Tarpennning, technically he is NOT one of the founders. But he brought in money, there was a lawsuit, and he got to legally call himself a "co-founder". He did not invent tesla, he only bought it.

as all the innovation heappens elsewhere and Tesal crashes and burns, I don't see how or why that kind of a pay package can be justified.

leaves themselves open to a shareholder derivative suit if they let this happen.

Who cooks up this BS?

Only ONE?

I'd hold out for 10.

Must reading for any board director.

"Pay me a trillion dollars a year or I'll resign!"
"We, the members of the Tesla Board of Directors, hereby accept your immediate resignation."

... to launch a golden parachute.

Let him self deport!

And I'll NEVER buy a Tesla.

And then deport him.

hit you in the ass on your way out, muskrat.

He won’t be missed!

Wait... I may have misinterpreted those comments... "Musk could leave Tesla" - Is that a threat or a promise?

It's like why tRump sues everyone for $10 BILLION DOLLARS. It's sharks with friggin LASER BEAMS. It's not whether he ever collects that, though he will try to get it if they are foolish enough. Just the official ratification/announcement is all his disciples need to pronounce him the worlds first trillionaire, to drive the markets MAD for everything he touches, and that is every reason for them to continue worshiping him. Perception IS reality!!!!!!! There's more money to be made grifting or down right stealing than earning.

The enthusiasm for owning a Tesla has waned, and the competition from Chinese makers is escalating.

This is just one way for Musk to walk away with a lot of money before things collapse.

Now I wouldn’t let one park in front of my house.

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It would take 12 days to get $1 million

It would take 32 years to get $1 billion

It would take 31,700 years to get $1 trillion

$525,600 dollars a year for 31,700 years.

$222,222,222 per year since the great pyramids of Giza were built.

That company tanked so fast!

What? It didn't?

Bye Elon! Now Nikola can get his name back.

If they think they need Elon, give him a great package -- especially in non-monetary assets as an incentive. If he can't live on that exorbitant amount, then he's not really a "creator" he's a grifter. And they'll never get their money's worth from a grifter. Frankly, I think Elon should concentrate on his Mars mission, and make sure he's among the very first ones who colonize Mars (anything to get him off this planet!).

rooms full of brilliant people. What on earth makes them think that one crazy man is irreplaceable?

Tesla would do well to let Elon go. He’s a drain on the brand.

Either is extremely absurd, times a trillion.

Yeah, I crack myself up.

I'm cracked up, thanks JR.

You have to add the taxes on in that bracket

plan. Geesh! What the hell is wrong with these money hoarders? Have they any conscience whatsoever?

Link to tweet

If so, and he leaves Tesla, subsequently tanking the stock, he harms himself more than anyone else.

Is that likely to happen?