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The search spike focuses on Elon Musk's new, unprecedented, all-stock compensation package from Tesla. If fully vested over the next decade, the performance-based award could be worth up to $1 trillion in Tesla stock. The package is tied to highly ambitious operational and financial milestones, including growing the company's market capitalization from its current $1.5 trillion to $8.5 trillion, and meeting aggressive targets for vehicle deliveries and the deployment of humanoid robots and robotaxis.
Interest spiked on November 6, 2025, because Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approved the proposed pay package with over 75% of the vote at the company's annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The approval comes as the latest step in a contentious saga following a Delaware judge's prior invalidation of Musk's 2018 compensation package, which had led the company to relocate its headquarters to Texas and propose this new, even larger incentive plan.
Supporters, including the Tesla board and many shareholders, view Musk as an indispensable 'superstar CEO' whose leadership is essential for transforming the company into an artificial intelligence and robotics powerhouse, warning that rejecting the plan risked his exit. Opponents, including major investors like Norway's sovereign wealth fund and advisory firms, criticized the package as excessive and potentially creating 'key man risk,' arguing that it concentrates too much power in one 'erratic' leader and could result in significant dilution of shares.