Most of TSLA is held by retail. Institutional investors are around 13%, Elon is around the same. (From memory)
Elon said he and his brother will abstain from the vote. They're also going to spend millions to influence the vote.
It'd be pretty stupid for the shareholders to approve either. They also want to move the incorporation from Delaware to Texas, because apparently Delaware isn't corporation friendly enough.
It'll be interesting to see whether common sense or propaganda is more effective on TSLA retail shareholders.
Well I own it through my SP500 index fund. I'm trying to determine how to best contact the fund managers. I have a well thought out and reasoned rationale why Elon shouldn't remain CEO and I will be heard:
Repeatedly failed to deliver products on time
Product offerings are insufficient in terms of engineering for cost
Design process leaves gaps in engineering causing greater issues
Product offerings are uninspired and boring
Valuations are driven by CEO repeatedly trying to scam investors for developments that are over budget and over schedule
Numerous, numerous Conflicts of Interests by CEO
Concerns about the CEO's physical and mental health
Concerns about the CEO's national security obligations
CEO's pay is ridiculously beyond the norm for his obligations and the rest of the sector
CEO has not seen any stock growth in the past year
Board chair Robyn Denholm wrote in a letter included in the regulatory filing: "Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years... That strikes us, and the many stockholders from whom we already have heard, as fundamentally unfair."
Musk's compensation for 2023 was $0, the filing showed, as the billionaire does not take a salary from the company and is compensated through stock options.
it's so unfair that elon hasnt gotten a single pay check and has instead had to settle for making billions off of his stock options. think of all the mega yachts and social media companies he could've bought if only he had been paid a salary.
completely agree. and it's even more insidious when you take into account how he's spent the past 6 years bragging about how he has a salary of $0 because he's "only working for the betterment of humanity" or some nonsense like that.
The man has to pay off his Twitter debt somehow, have some sympathy with him. Making a bad purchase totaling a few dozen billions could happen to anyone. Plus he has to keep up with inflation you know, that ranking on the "Top richest people in the world" isn't going to maintain itself, better abuse some more workers to make sure he stays with the 0.0000001% of wealthy people. Not like those outdated bio robots are people anyway, really you have to own at least 1B to qualify for that status.
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