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Tesla shareholders convened this Thursday to decide on a enormous remuneration plan for CEO Elon Musk worth approximately nearly $1 trillion. Upon approval, this deal would showcase market faith that the billionaire can steer the car company into an age shaped by AI technology and automation. If rejected, Tesla could confront the loss of a visionary leader who once made the company name interchangeable with zero-emission cars.

Record-Breaking Milestones and Company Valuation

If the CEO meets the ambitious milestones detailed in the compensation plan presented at Tesla's annual meeting, he could be crowned the world's first person with a trillion-dollar net worth. For this to happen, he must lead Tesla to a astronomical $8.5 trillion in company worth, which is eight times its present worth. Additionally, he will be tasked to roll out countless autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots, while maintaining the company's bottom line in the massive revenue figures throughout the coming ten years.

Payment Breakdown

The main goals of the pay package, split into a dozen phases, chart a trajectory for Tesla to achieve its massive worth. If successful, Musk would be in a position to benefit from an additional 12% of the firm's equity. To be eligible, he must stay committed with the firm for a minimum of 7.5 years. He will also assist in creating a long-term succession plan for the organization he has led for in excess of 20 years. The share grants provided by the updated remuneration deal, combined with shares promised in his earlier deal, would result in Musk with a quarter stake of Tesla's stock. By the start of November, Tesla equity was priced close to its 52-week high, at roughly $450 per share.

Formidable Objectives

Over the course of a ten-year period, Musk will be required to manufacture 20 million zero-emission cars to consumers, sell 10 million active full self-driving subscriptions, develop and sell 1 million bipedal machines, and launch 1 million robotaxis in revenue-generating use.

Musk will also be tasked to elevate the company to $400 billion in tangible revenue for four straight quarters. Tesla's actual earnings for the third quarter of 2025 were $4.2 billion, down 9% from the year before.

In November, Musk's net worth was pegged at $460 billion, the highest in the globe, according to wealth indexes.

Restoring a Invalidated Deal

Shareholders are furthermore evaluating a plan that would reward Musk after his 2018 compensation plan was invalidated by a judicial body in Delaware. The remuneration deal, valued at around $56 billion, was contested by a sole shareholder who prevailed in court. The Delaware court of chancery denied Musk's compensation plan on two occasions. If shareholders approve the proposal in the shareholder meeting, Musk is expected to be awarded the massive amount whether or not Tesla and Musk win an appeal of the lawsuit.

Subsequent to Musk's earlier remuneration deal was first rescinded, he moved Tesla's business registration from Delaware to Texas. He repeated the action with the rocket firm and other business entities. In the previous year, per Texas statutes, shareholders again passed the remuneration deal.

But Delaware's known as "equity court" once again denied one of the most substantial CEO payouts in contemporary business. Following that adverse judgment, Musk posted on his accounts to show frustration with the jurisdiction and its "influential presiding justice", perhaps fueling a number of company relocations that Delaware officials have tried to stop with new laws.

In considering whether Musk had undue influence in being awarded that earlier remuneration deal, a prominent legal scholar remarked that the judge recognized that other "superstar CEOs" like the Meta chief and Amazon's Jeff Bezos were not given this sort of performance-linked deals.