During the night between Thursday and Friday, Tesla’s shareholders’ meeting decided to grant the company’s CEO Elon Musk what is most likely the largest bonus package in world history.

Musk is already the richest person in the world today and is now being awarded shares worth up to 1,000 billion dollars over a ten-year period. This was supported by more than 75 percent of the company’s investors at the meeting.

It is expected that the company’s market value during the period will increase from the current approximately 1,100 billion dollars to over 8,500 billion dollars. The bonus package also assumes that Tesla will sell at least 20 million cars annually and introduce a million self-driving robot taxis into traffic.

Nordic critics

However, there were critics as well, and several major institutions that had invested in the electric car brand had announced before the shareholders’ meeting that they intended to vote against. Among these were the Norwegian oil fund and the Finnish pension insurance companies Varma and Ilmarinen.

According to reports, Musk is said to have threatened to resign as CEO if the bonus package did not go through.