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Robyn Denholm, normally media shy, is campaigning to get shareholders to back the chief executive’s trillion-dollar compensation package.

By Jack Ewing

Reporting from Palo Alto, Calif.

Most executives who presided over sinking sales and profit and a new product that tanked would be looking for a new job. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, could instead receive the largest compensation package in corporate history.