COLUMN. Tesla shareholders have granted their CEO stock-based compensation that could reach as much as $1 trillion over five years. This sum first appeared in the pages of the newspaper on October 14, 1952, in a humorous column on estimating the value of a life lost in an accident.

Shareholder votes on a pay package worth $1tn to be tallied 6 November – but it contains milestones beyond growing the company’s market cap

Musk’s net worth could soon top $1,000,000,000,000 as Tesla reaffirms its desire for the world’s richest man to lead the electric-vehicle company.