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Between Tesla and OpenAI, two governance flashpoints hold lessons for India

How to sustain open innovation in the face of rising financial and computational demands

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO
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OpenAI’s founders, who included Sam Altman and Mr Musk, pledged large commitments, with an initial funding pledge of $1 billion from a mix of tech-entrepreneurs and institutions

Amit Tandon

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Earlier this month Tesla’s shareholders approved a $1 trillion compensation for Elon Musk.
 
The trillion-dollar man
 
Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion stock package for Mr Musk is more than a headline-grabbing compensation deal — it raises a series of questions that boards and investors need to ask.
 
The award is not a salary but an aggressive, performance-linked stock package that vests only if Tesla meets its stretched targets — from multi-trillion-dollar market-cap targets to breakthroughs in robotaxis, artificial intelligence (AI), and humanoid robotics.   
 
As expected, investors are divided on this. Those in support hail it as an alignment of Mr
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