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He'll still own *the largest share of Tesla so it won't change anything.
*Corrected my post but the point remains: he controls the company and their image to such a degree he has to be asked to step away, all in an effort to improve his fortunes primarily.
He doesn't own Tesla. "Elon Musk Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the largest shareholder in Tesla. With over 410 million shares, Musk holds 12.8% of all Tesla shares." https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-tesla-shareholders-tsla.asp#%3A%7E%3Atext=and+State+Street.-%2CElon+Musk%2Cover+410+million+shares%2C+Musk+holds+12.8%25+of+all+Tesla+shares.%2C-4
Musk gets his money from Tesla, and somehow manages to control the company with his minority stake.
The stock holder confirmation of the insane bonus to Musk is evidence of that.
The other investors may be collateral damage. But that's OK IMO, they support Elon Musk, otherwise they should have gotten out long ago.
The wealth from Tesla is what gives Musk power.
I should have included this but yes, there is a whole court case about this: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/04/23/elon-musk-and-the-control-of-tesla/
But he doesn't own Tesla. I was mainly trying to focus on that point.
Though as others have mentioned he gets his wealth from many other sources. Small sourceless point but capital accumulation rarely occurs from ownership in a single company.
All true.
.. maybe his job as CEO at Tesla has something to do with that?
No I mean he controls the board too.
Yes. They all bought into the same bubble. Even if they want to fire him as CEO, they're afraid of the loss in case Musk sells off his stock. The next board meeting will be interesting.
.... I don't think Musk is relying on tesla alone. He has money coming in from everywhere. Hence, all of his inspired businesses.
The problem is that he also has debt, a large part of which is secured by Tesla stock. If that stock took a nosedive to 10% of its previous value, the owners of said debt might come calling.
Sure it would.
Tesla is a public company. The public owns it.
Wall Street has achieved communism. Wow. Never thought I'd see the day.
It's a "publicly traded company", not a "public company" - so a company where anybody who has the money to do so can buy shares in it, not a company owned by the state (which can be States, Regions, Municipalities, the Central Government and so on).
Since a "public company" is one oned by the state, in a Democracy that means every citizen owns part of it and all have an equal share of ownership (via their electoral vote they chose directly or indirectly who manages the companies owned by the state), whilst a "publicly traded company" is only owned by some amongst the public (those who bought shares in it, which can only happen if they had the money to do so) and the sizes of each owner's stakes are highly uneven with a few owning far, far, FAR larger fractions of the company than the vast majority (so, not at all a democratic system).
You're on a roll, braniac