Musk's pay package was tied to TSLA stock hitting certain price targets -- if it failed to do so, he wouldn't be paid at all. Here's what the NY Times wrote back in 2018 [1]:
> Tesla is worth only about $59 billion today. If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $55 billion.
Well, he managed to do the "laughably impossible" -- Tesla is worth over $900 billion today. Shareholders should be thrilled.
