But it surely seems like one thing is lastly going his approach.
The billionaire mentioned on Wednesday night time that the shareholder votes to go his $56 billion pay bundle and to reincorporate Tesla in Texas are “passing by huge margins.”
“Thanks in your assist!!” Musk mentioned in an X submit.
The ultimate outcomes of the vote might be introduced at a shareholder assembly at Tesla’s headquarters in Austin on Thursday.
Successful each votes might be an enormous enhance for Musk, who has pulled out all of the stops to woo Tesla shareholders. Except for campaigning on his social media platform X, Musk has additionally provided shareholders the chance to go on a personally guided tour of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas.
Musk even sought to show what’s been broadly considered as a drawback — operating half a dozen firms concurrently —into a bonus.
The billionaire spent his weekend pitching shareholders on the advantages of getting Tesla as part of his sprawling enterprise empire, often known as the “Muskonomy.”
He is additionally argued {that a} Musk-led Tesla wouldn’t solely permit the EV big to make use of know-how from his different firms, and grant shareholders entry to his future IPOs too.
“I’ve talked about one thing like this earlier than, but when any of my firms goes public, we’ll prioritize different longtime shareholders of my different firms, together with Tesla,” Musk mentioned on Saturday.
“Loyalty deserves loyalty,” he added.
However Musk’s overtures to shareholders ran right into a pace bump on Tuesday after The Wall Road Journal printed an intensive story about his sexual advances to feminine workers at his rocket firm, SpaceX.
And a day later, Musk was hit with a lawsuit from eight former SpaceX workers.
The lawsuit, filed in California, accuses Musk and SpaceX of wrongfully terminating workers after they raised considerations about sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
Representatives for Musk and Tesla didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from BI despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
