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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk’ – why investors are happy to pay him $1tn

Protesters hold up a placard saying 'No $1 trillion for Musk'
Protesters make their point in Austin, Texas, but Tesla investors disagreed, voting to make the tycoon the world’s first trillionaire. Photograph: Jay Janner/AP

For all the headlines about an on-off relationship with Donald Trump, baiting liberals and erratic behaviour, Tesla shareholders are loath to part with Elon Musk.

Investors in the electric vehicle maker voted on Thursday to put the world’s richest person on the path to become the world’s first trillionaire, despite the controversy that is now seemingly intrinsic to his public profile.

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