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A Wall Street Journal report dissected on the TBPN podcast episode Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s ‘Shortcut’ to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN is drawing fresh scrutiny to an obscure provision inside Elon Musk’s 2025 Tesla compensation plan. The clause could allow the world’s richest executive to skip the operational milestones that otherwise stand between him and one of the largest pay packages in corporate history. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares traded at $332.81 as of the most recent close, giving the company a market capitalization of roughly $1.31 trillion.
The stock is down 26% year to date and 18.38% over the past month. The Package and the Shortcut Under the 2025 CEO Performance Award, Musk can earn up to 423 million Tesla shares across 12 tranches. Each tranche requires Tesla to hit both a market capitalization target and an operational milestone.