NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk turned off many potential buyers of his Tesla cars and sent sales plunging with his . But the stock has soared anyway and now he wants the company to pay him more — a lot more.

Shareholders gathering Thursday for Tesla's annual meeting in Austin, Texas, will decide in a proxy vote whether to grant Musk, the company's CEO and already the , enough stock to potentially make him history's first trillionaire.

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