With the middle class drying up I wonder if we’ll see these pretty soon

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But a TRILLION dollar payday?

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Leftist economic arguments are low intelligence for a reason. You don't seem to even understand what his compensation package is, like a typical leftist.

He's betting on himself. What's the problem with that?

If he fails, then that package doesn't come to fruition.

Yeah in order for him to get that payment, everyone's getting paid and the company is gangbusters.

Totally worth it.

As long as Elon (or anyone) can create that type of wealth backing real Americans and not on the backs of real Americans, great. When real American jobs and towns dry up to accrue that type of wealth that’s where the problem arise.

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But a TRILLION dollar payday?

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It's a private company with the board of directors voting for this. Also, it's got some really ambitious standards which must be met.

Achieve and sustain increments starting from Tesla's current ~$1.5 trillion valuation
- First 9 tranches: +$500 billion each (up to $6.5 trillion total).
- Final 2 tranches: +$1 trillion each (reaching $8.5 trillion).
- Must maintain the new valuation for 5 years for full vesting; if Tesla falls below $1.999 trillion at any point, Musk gets nothing.

Deliver 20 million Tesla EVs cumulatively over 10 years
-Requires a focus on scaling production and sales, building on Tesla's current annual output of ~2 million vehicles.

Sell 10 million active Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscriptions
-Requires first advancing FSD from supervised to fully unsupervised systems, enabling widespread adoption.

Develop and sell 1 million Optimus humanoid robots
-Targets commercial deployment of robots for tasks like manufacturing, household use provide medical care. At the current $20k-$30k per robot, that's going to be a tall order so a big focus must be on getting prices down (maybe have them build themselves?)

Deploy 1 million robotaxis in commercial service
-Involves launching a dedicated autonomous ride-hailing fleet, separate from consumer vehicles, and then getting enough buy-in from enough locations.

Commit to Tesla for 7.5–10 years; develop CEO succession framework
-Musk must remain CEO (or equivalent role) and outline a plan for his eventual replacement (though no fixed timeline for his retirement is required).

There are exceptions for "covered events" where he could get partial awards for not achieving full operational milestones but those are for very limited things like regulatory approvals or force majeure events.