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Definitely not the case. Shareholders got back what was theirs of right.

Dozens of CEOs, including CEOs of much larger companies like Satya Nadella and Tim Cook, got $2.2B in stock options that ended up being worth $55B. But I want to stress that no one, ever, got a salary of $2.2B. Satya Nadella just now have crossed the $1B compensation mark.

The market is full of CEOs that 10x-ed their companies' share prices and all they get is a decent salary.

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Which other CEOs of companies as large as Tesla have 10x-ed their company’s share price in just five years?

Perhaps share price is not a good metric? And it would actually explain a lot of Musk's behavior in manipulating the stock price.

Given that the discussion is about whether or not the shareholder’s interests were violated, share price is a pretty good metric in this case.

Shareholder interests go beyond pump and dumping a stock.

Share price wasn't the metric used to determine the compensation though. It was revenue growth.

Nvidia is more than twice the size of Tesla currently and 17xed over the last 5 years.

Looking at form 4s, Jensen got about 25 Billion dollar worth of shares between 2018 and 2023.

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