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[–] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

55 Billion is a little more than Tesla's gross profit from 2023, 2022, 2021 combined. 3 years of gross* profit!

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/gross-profit

Maybe the board was proposing to Musk?

"They say you should spend 3 years salary."

* Gross profit is revenue without subtracting manufacturing or production expenses. Net profit is gross profit minus the cost of all business operations and non-operations.

Edit: Tesla's total net income from 2010 to 2023 looks to be less than 46 Billion:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-income-loss

So take all the money Tesla has made since 2010 (without subtracting the years they've lost money), take another 9 Billion dollar loan, that would equal 55 billion.

[–] Toto@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

I know some will call this anti-democratic or communistic but the board was stacked with friends and family. It really wasn’t in the shareholders best interest even though they voted for it. It’s absurd sum as the judge said.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hard to wrap your head around a $55 billon comp package

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Almost as if he wants to extort Tesla to cover his Twitter losses.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago

They’d have to sell over 1.2 million model 3s just to break even on the compensation they’re paying this crook. What a crazy, obvious shell game

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is a wild story.

Analysis from 2018 here:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/05/22/elon-musks-compensation/

So when they gave him this, Tesla was worth about 60 Billion. They said if you ~10x the company, well give you what amounts to roughly 10% of the company in stock. Regardless of what part he played, or what stock price says about company value, at it's height in 2021 Tesla was worth 1 trillion, overshooting the most ridiculous targets by almost 70% (the worth at that point would have been 17x what it was in 2018).

On the one hand, it's just all so ridiculous that I don't think anyone saw that actually happening, which is probably why they voted for it. On the other hand, I'm glad he lost it because the sooner Tesla != Musk the better and this feels like a decent wedge for driving that separation. I wonder if this means they have to adopt a revised compensation plan or something.

[–] Enk1@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] CodeName@infosec.pub 5 points 8 months ago

He should have his eyebrows transplanted down to his upper lip. It wouldn't look good, but it would be something...

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Maybe he's going to quit and take his talents to another company? As a Tesla owner and stockholder I think I'd prefer it.