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Fight Club: Should Tesla Pay Elon Musk $56 Billion?
Fight Club: Should Tesla Pay Elon Musk $56 Billion?
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Corporate greed? Or a richly deserved payday? Nellie Bowles and Joe Nocera face off.
By Nellie Bowles and Joe Nocera
06.12.24
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Fight Club: Should Tesla Pay Elon Musk $56 Billion?

On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to approve a $56 billion payday for CEO Elon Musk. If it goes through, it will be the largest compensation package ever granted to an executive at a U.S.-listed company. 

The imminent shareholder vote got us talking in the Free Press newsroom. Beyond the complicated legal battle over his pay packet, do…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is the deputy managing editor of The Free Press.
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