Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always been bold, from his visions to the way he runs his companies the South African billionaire always manages to wow observers. Now, he once again manages to grab headlines with perhaps the most daring pay plan in corporate history.
The electric automaker granted its CEO a $2.6 billion award, the largest-ever of its kind highlighting the companies immense ambitions, as well as the key role Musk, plays in its future success. If fully vested over the course of a decade, and stock options would net him as much as $55.8 billion – enough to make him the world’s richest man.
“It’s breathtaking both in size and in terms of performance required to earn it,” Steven Hall, managing director of compensation consulting firm Steven Hall & Partners, said of Musk’s grant. “Like everything Musk is involved in, whether it’s building a company from scratch or launching satellites into space, this is beyond expectation.”
It’s definitely breathtaking, and it needs to be because nothing will be guaranteed along the way. This means zero salary and no cash bonuses, Musk’s massive reward can only be reaped if Tesla succeeds in becoming one of the world’s biggest companies and that is a man sized if. There’s also no clear roadmap on how to get there which makes this pay deal pretty much like Musk himself, big-picture, moonshot end goals, and particulars be damned.
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