On a crisp November evening in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk took the stage at Tesla's shareholders' meeting and danced with a humanoid robot, a tangible moment of celebration after shareholders approved his monumental $1 trillion compensation package.

But that dance, joyful as it was, represents just the beginning of an extraordinary decade-long performance odyssey. To actually collect on this historic paycheck, Musk must achieve what Tesla's board calls "Mars-shot milestones", a suite of operational and financial targets.

Unlike traditional CEO compensation tied to quarterly earnings or annual metrics, Musk's $1 trillion package is structured as 12 equally-sized tranches of stock grants, each unlocked only when Tesla simultaneously achieves both a market capitalisation milestone and a co

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