Is giving Elon Musk a 56 billion compensation package the most in history the fair thing to do?

Get the Full StoryAs Tesla shareholders prepare to vote on Musk s pay, the board is making a curious argument about why he deserves the package a judge threw out as excessive.

Over the past couple of weeks, Tesla shareholders have been casting their ballots in one of the odder shareholder votes in corporate history: a vote to reinstate a massive 56 billion compensation package the biggest in history for Elon Musk that was put in place back in 2018 but was then thrown out by a Delaware judge in January. What makes the vote the results of which will be finalized at Tesla s annual meeting in June so unusual is that it s effectively asking shareholders to pay Musk many billions of dollars in stock options for work that has already been done.

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