2025-11-07
26 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen, and at 4.30 GMT on November 7, 2025, these are our main stories.
Tesla shareholders vote to give Elon Musk what could be the world's first trillion-dollar pay packet.
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The world's richest man is set to become even richer.
Tesla shareholders have approved an astonishing pay package that could make the electric car company's founder and CEO Elon Musk a trillionaire
if he can deliver a future filled with self-driving taxes and humanoid robots.
It could be the largest corporate payout in history.
And while critics have said it's an absurd figure, eclipsing entire country's GDPs,
Mr Musk's backers say it demonstrates Tesla's confidence that he can raise the firm's market value.
value significantly over a period of years and be a leader in the new era of artificial intelligence.
Our US business correspondent Michelle Flurry told me more.
This is someone who was already very rich and now he's just been handed the chance to become history's first trillionaire.
He won a shareholder vote that approves a future pay package,
which doesn't actually include any salary, but it does include stock.
potentially worth $1 trillion if he hit certain performance targets over the next decade.