38 h. ago Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire. Here’s what that looks like

Musk could be earning roughly $1,622 every second

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38 h. ago Elon Musk's quest to be trillionaire 'won't buy him respect or love he obviously craves'

Elon Musk's weird desire to be the world's first ever trillionaire has been branded "beyond grotesque", and "all the money in the world won’t buy him the respect or love he so obviously craves"

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39 h. ago Elon Musk's grim thirst to be world's first trillionaire branded 'beyond grotesque'

News that billionaire Elon Musk' could bag the biggest ever payout in corporate history has been slammed

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40 h. ago Elon Musk on course to become the world's first TRILLIONAIRE: Tycoon sets out his vision for AI cars and robot army to perform surgery and 'eliminate poverty'

Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire after clinching the largest pay deal in corporate history.

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40 h. ago ‘Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk’ – why investors are happy to pay him $1tn

Making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire appears to fit a US investment culture of backing high-flying innovatorsFor all the headlines about an on-off relationship with Donald Trump, baiting liberals and erratic behaviour, Tesla shareholders are loath to part with Elon Musk.Investors in the electric vehicle maker voted on Thursday to put the world’s richest person on the path to become the world’s first trillionaire, despite the controversy that is now seemingly intrinsic to his public profile. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package after founder threatens to leave

Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire after Tesla shareholders voted to give him a mammoth pay package.

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58 h. ago Musk could become history's first trillionaire as Tesla shareholders approve giant pay package

The world’s richest man was just handed a chance to become history’s first trillionaire

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58 h. ago Tesla awards Elon Musk $1 trillion payday after board warned he might walk away

Shareholders believe Musk is the man to drive electric vehicle manufacturer to $8.5 trillion in market value over next decade, shrugging off experts’ concerns about the business becoming too reliant upon him

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58 h. ago Elon Musk to become world's first trillionaire as Tesla shareholders vote to pay him $1trillion

Tesla shareholders have voted to give Elon Musk a huge pay package of nearly $1trillion worth of stock over the next decade, making him the world's first trillionaire

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58 h. ago Elon Musk on course to become world's first trillionaire as he wins Tesla vote

Elon Musk is now on course to become the world's first trillionaire after Tesla shareholders voted to approve the latest proposed compensation plan for its CEO

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60 h. ago Plea for Elon Musk to rescue three astronauts stranded in space after 'unknown object' damaged their ship

A worldwide outcry is mounting for Elon Musk to intervene after reports emerged that three astronauts have been left stranded in space.

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3 d. ago How Tesla shareholders could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire

Shareholder votes on a pay package worth $1tn to be tallied 6 November – but it contains milestones beyond growing the company’s market capIf Elon Musk can grow Tesla to over $8tn in value for stockholders over the next decade, he will be well on his way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.That is if stockholders approve the company’s latest proposed compensation plan for the “Superstar CEO”, as a judge once called him, at this week’s annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas, set for Thursday afternoon. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Musk the trillionaire? Debate over his Tesla pay package rages

Tesla shareholders will decide soon on whether Elon Musk could have a shot at becoming the world's first trillionaire

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8 d. ago Musk’s SpaceX set to win $2 billion satellite deal with Pentagon, report says

Billionaire tech boss reportedly in line for lucrative Golden Dome commission despite spectacular public falling out with President Donald Trump in July

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8 d. ago Elon Musk speaks out after beloved San Francisco bodega cat is killed by autonomous Waymo vehicle

A shrine to the pet has sprung up near where KitKat was killed, with one resident predicting it will “grow and grow” as Day of the Dead approaches

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1 week ago From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones

We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating powerDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I warned of “Orbánisation” – in reference to Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. There, democracy was not extinguished by firing squads or the mass imprisonment of dissidents, but by slow attrition. The electoral system was warped, civil society was targeted and pro-Orbán moguls quietly absorbed the media.Nine months on, and Orbánisation is in full bloom across the Atlantic. Billionaire Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder, and his filmmaker son, David, have become blunt instruments in this process. Trump boasts they are “friends of mine – they’re big supporters of mine”. Larry Ellison, second only to Elon Musk as the world’s richest man, has poured tens of millions into R...

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1 week ago Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a right-leaning version of Wikipedia

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1 week ago He just can’t quit him. Donald Trump suspects he will ‘always like’ Elon Musk

Trump and Musk’s bitter feud has seen them hurl accusations of drug use and links to Jeffrey Epstein at each other

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2 w. ago Musk calls critics of his $1T salary ‘corporate terrorists’ and ponders the future of his ‘robot army’ in wild earnings call

World’s richest man lashes out over level of influence he’ll have over ‘robot army’ he says he is building

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2 w. ago Elon Musk takes another shot at Transport Secretary Sean Duffy over NASA role: ‘He need moar brainz!’

The tech billionaire has called Duffy ‘dangerously stupid’ and campaigned for SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to replace him as NASA chief

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