‘All You Have to Do Is Be Bought’: A SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Be Musk’s $1 Trillion Payout Cheat Code
What if you were the CEO of one company, and all you had to do to receive the equivalent of $1 trillion were to have that company buy another company you also happen to be CEO of? But the carrot in this metaphor was meant to be attached to an incredibly long stick at the other side of a very difficult maze. Tesla theoretically needs to hit a valuation of $8.5 trillion inside of ten years—about eight times more than it was worth when the package was approved.
- ▪What if you were the CEO of one company, and all you had to do to receive the equivalent of $1 trillion were to have that company buy another company you also happen to be CEO of?
- ▪But the carrot in this metaphor was meant to be attached to an incredibly long stick at the other side of a very difficult maze.
- ▪Tesla theoretically needs to hit a valuation of $8.5 trillion inside of ten years—about eight times more than it was worth when the package was approved.
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What if you were the CEO of one company, and all you had to do to receive the equivalent of $1 trillion were to have that company buy another company you also happen to be CEO of? According to the Wall Street Journal, that hypothetical may just approximate the system of incentives and rewards currently on the table for a certain businessman named Elon Reeve Musk.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000796904","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"transportation","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"transportation","TAGS":"elon-musk,spacex,tesla","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Musk, the world’s…
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