Tao Francis
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103 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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economy.
Well, it kind of depends how you look at it, right?
From the company's perspective, they might not be spending more.
It's just that they don't have to wait to get some of that money back.
So the net spending might be the same, but because of the speeded up deductions, they might be willing to spend it sooner.
And so in effect, they might hire more people.
They might rehire people who've been laid off.
in recent years.
They might start projects that were borderline, maybe not profitable, but now with a bit more of an incentive here, with a bit more of a tax benefit, they can actually go ahead and restart it.
Thank you.
WSJ What’s News · Tesla Awards Elon Musk $23.7 Billion in Stock to Stay Focused · 4 Aug 2025
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Essentially, the board of Tesla is calling this an interim pay package.
What they're saying is we want to give him something.
We want to reward him for the work he's done.
We want to make sure he gets paid.
We want to make sure he has an incentive to stick around and stay focused on Tesla.
So this is a bit of a stopgap.
And there's even a clause in it that says that if he gets to keep that enormous 2018 pay package and all the stock options in it, then this one is going to go away.
So now we have to jump into the weeds just a bit.
Most of the time when we talk about executive pay, we're talking about the grant date fair value.
That just means what is it worth when they get it?
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