The US firm faced a difficult year with unease over chief executive Elon Musk’s political activities and stiff overseas competition.
The US firm faced a difficult year with unease over chief executive Elon Musk’s political activities and stiff overseas competition.
That’s not how it works…
They create new shares which dilutes everyone. The shareholders are paying Elon.
To get a trillion dollars they’d need to sell 68% of the company to someone else today, or over 10% of the company at the planned end goal of the compensation plan.
Giving that % of the company to someone else would have a real impact on how the company is run, and who even has that much money to buy into Tesla other than other bad large companies / private equity.
Edit: also, they’re flush with cash as it is already. They’ve claimed for years they can’t spend it any faster without being wasteful. They got somethings like 45b in the bank.