{"id":37926,"date":"2025-11-06T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/tesla-shareholder-meeting-updates-elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-package-is-on-the-line\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:51:16","slug":"tesla-shareholder-meeting-updates-elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-package-is-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/tesla-shareholder-meeting-updates-elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-package-is-on-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shareholder meeting updates: Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is on the line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/p>\n

ODD ANDERSEN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tesla shareholders are hours away from deciding the fate of Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package.<\/p>\n

Tesla's annual shareholder meeting kicks off Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET at the company's headquarters in Austin. A limited number of shareholders were invited to attend in person.<\/p>\n

Tesla investors are voting on multiple proposals. Chief among them is Musk's pay package, which is contingent on achieving some lofty goals. To earn the full $1 trillion value, Musk must boost Tesla's market cap to $8.5 trillion by 2035, sell 12 million vehicles a year, and deploy one million robotaxis and one million humanoid robots.<\/p>\n

The pay package proposal has proven divisive.<\/p>\n

Weeks ahead of the vote, proxy advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis have both urged shareholders to reject the proposal.<\/p>\n

Musk called the proxy firms "corporate terrorists" during Tesla's recent earnings call, and board chair Robyn Denholm warned shareholders in an October letter that Musk could walk away from the company if they don't approve his compensation.<\/p>\n

Tesla's shares have recovered from a sharp downturn earlier in the year, but its sales face an uncertain future after the end of the EV tax credit in the US and increased competition from other automakers.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk can vote on his own pay package<\/p>\n

While Musk and his brother, Kimbal, didn't vote last year on whether to re-approve the Tesla CEO's 2018 pay package, they are free to vote on his new compensation plan.<\/p>\n

When Tesla was seeking to ratify Musk's 2018 pay package under Delaware law (where Tesla used to be incorporated), the company said that the result was "conditioned on approval by at least a majority of votes cast by disinterested stockholders."<\/p>\n

Tesla has since incorporated in Texas, leaving Delaware, and the company is not limiting the vote to "disinterested stockholders" this time around.<\/p>\n

Musk's roughly 15% equity stake in Tesla increases the odds that his pay package will be approved.<\/p>\n

Tesla shareholders will vote on 14 proposals<\/p>\n

In addition to voting on whether to reelect three board members \u2014Ira Ehrenpreis, Joe Gebbia, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson \u2014Tesla investors are determining whether the EV maker should explore an investment in Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI.<\/p>\n

Musk has sounded open to the idea in the past and said the company would consider it if shareholders submitted a proposal. Multiple did, and while Tesla has a voting recommendation on all of the other proposals submitted by shareholders, it took a neutral "none" position on this one \u2014 likely in an attempt to insulate itself against potential future legal challenges over the idea of one company led by Musk investing in another.<\/p>\n

Shareholders will also decide whether to carve out Tesla share reserves for rewarding and attracting top talent (as well as allocating 208 million shares to "address the uncertainty" over Musk's 2018 pay package, which remains snarled in a legal battle after a judge tossed it out).<\/p>\n

'A pivotal juncture in Tesla's history'<\/p>\n

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Tesla's graphic for its annual shareholder meeting 2025 features its Optimus humanoid robot, which is in development.<\/p>\n

Tesla<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tesla and some of its executives have been on a messaging blitz as the shareholder meeting approached.<\/p>\n

The company has paid for ads on X.com to promote the vote, released videos outlining the company's voting recommendations, and board chair Robyn Denholm has made media appearances to argue that it's only fair that Musk get his payday.<\/p>\n

"The Future of Tesla Is in Your Hands," the company's "votetesla.com" website reads.<\/p>\n

"We are at a pivotal juncture in Tesla's history, and the proposals the Special Committee has carefully designed and the Board has put forward will help determine Tesla's future. If you believe, like us, that Elon is the CEO that can make our ambitious vision a reality, vote NOW," the text says.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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