Elon Musk's pay package, which was struck down last night by a Delaware judge, was larger than the market value of both Ford ($46.9 billion) and GM ($53.1 billion), Hope writes.
Context: It's another way to understand just how unusual Musk's leadership of and influence over Tesla has been.
But it's also a reminder of how laughably impossible those compensation targets — which were tied to Tesla's value — appeared when they were first set in 2018.
One by one, Musk cleared them: Growing Tesla from less than $60 billion at the time to more than $650 billion and hitting revenue and profitability goals.