Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars
Either SpaceX's board members are just as delulu, or they're confident this goal is unachievable so they won't have to dole out the pay package.
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Elon Musk now has another reason to colonize Mars besides appealing to his massive ego. Board members of SpaceX are dangling a lucrative pay package in front of the billionaire to keep him focused on his ambitious goal of setting up a human habitat on the Red Planet.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000752661","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"science","SECTION":"space","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"space","TAGS":"elon-musk,mars,spacex","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The board approved a compensation plan for the company founder that’s contingent on a few key goals ahead of SpaceX’s initial…
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