Tesla has outlined a massive pay package for Elon Musk that would make him the world’s first trillionaire.

Last week, investors proposed granting the Tesla CEO with 423.7 million additional shares of company stock, which are valued at US$143.5 billion (about C$198.5 billion) at current stock value and would push Musk’s net worth into the trillion-dollar sphere. Musk, who’s already the world’s richest man, would receive this extra stock should Tesla stock reach an overall value of US$8.5 trillion (about C$11.75 trillion).

However, this is a lofty goal for several reasons. Most importantly, Tesla’s current market cap is US$1.1 trillion (about C$1.5 trillion), so it has a long way to go. To put this ambitious US$8.5 trillion target into perspective, this would be roughly double the current

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