Hello and welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin today with what may turn out to be a milestone in global capitalism,
the world's first dollar trillionaire.
And just to be clear, that is a thousand billion dollars or a million million dollars,
a genuinely eye-watering sum in the hands of a single person.
And it is, of course, the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk,
already the world's richest man, who's worth an estimated half a trillion,
thanks to his investments in the electric car company and also SpaceX,
the social media site X, Stalin, and so on.
And despite his ill-fated dalliance with the Trump administration.
Well, in a moment, we'll be discussing whether he or indeed anyone is worth a trillion dollars,
what that says about tech valuations right now,
and what it says about the state of capitalism in 2025.
But first, here's how it all unfolded at Tesla's annual meeting of shareholders in Texas.
On the 2025 CEO Performance Award to our founder and CEO, Elon Musk, with over 75% voting in favor.
April.
Elon, Elon, they're chanting that.
Well, to celebrate, Elon must go up on stage to dance alongside two of his optimist robots.
I'm those bots who are just dancing, but no wires.