Tao Francis
speaker
103 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Tao Francis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Late last summer, we estimated that he was worth just a little more than $400 billion.
A few weeks ago, we checked back, $811 billion.
And of course, now he's crossed the trillion-dollar threshold.
Most of that huge increase since last summer is really about SpaceX.
He's not only the biggest shareholders in these companies, he's also their leader.
If he starts selling, that could drive the share price down.
He can borrow against his holdings to some degree, but ultimately his fortunes are tied up with the fortunes of these companies.
How far are you willing to go to acquire Greenland?
You'll find out.
I think that really sparked this trend.
I mean, it was after that that a number of other companies came in with really similar structures.
What really distinguishes these is that they're valued really highly to begin with, but they have the potential to really balloon.
And that's because they're tied to performance targets for the company.
Often these are stock price or market capitalization targets.
So it's a combination of a big market
award, a longer time period, often these are five to 10 years in duration, and then also this potential for these performance targets to really get a lot bigger.
Some of these are startups.
And one of the things that startups have is a lot of leeway from investors in setting pay packages.
And founders also often have concerns
bigger or more unusual pay packages.
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