https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teslas-proposed-pay-package-make-elon-musk-trillionaire/story?id=125300805
By Max Zahn
September 5, 2025, 5:21 PM
according to a securities filing on Friday
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal
05/10/08 12:39 AM
According to the episode dialog, if there is no way to decipher the hidden meaning of his priceless heirloom, then it has no value.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/video/teslas-most-important-product-legend-200556890.html
Yahoo! News
Tesla's 'most important product' is the legend of Elon Musk
Yahoo Finance Video and Josh Lipton
Fri, September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM PDT
of my original-work code-pattern
Event Date variable: 09/05/2025 (Friday)
Search Date variable: 05/10/2008 (by me, Kerry Burgess)
Result
From 8/22/1940 ( Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of USA federal government 1933-1945: Executive Order 8523 - Regulations Governing the Payment of Additional Compensation to Enlisted Men of the Coast Guard Specially Qualified in the Use of Arms ) To 9/5/2025 ( Friday ) is 31060 days
31060 = 15530 + 15530
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/10/2008 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal, above ) is 15530 days
From 7/3/1985 ( premiere USA film "Back to the Future" ) To 9/5/2025 ( ) is 14674 days
14674 = 7337 + 7337
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/4/1985 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1989: Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Leave of Absence of James M. Beggs as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) is 7337 days
From 4/21/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Qualified M-14 Rifle, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, primary-duty: CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 9/5/2025 ( ) is 13651 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/19/2003 ( ) is 13651 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere USA film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 9/5/2025 ( ) is 15029 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/26/2006 ( biographical - Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA federal government 1974-1977 - dead ) is 15029 days
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teslas-proposed-pay-package-make-elon-musk-trillionaire/story?id=125300805
ABC News
Tesla's proposed pay package could make Elon Musk a trillionaire
Musk is already the wealthiest person in the world.
By Max Zahn
September 5, 2025, 5:21 PM
Tesla’s board proposed a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that would catapult the tech entrepreneur’s wealth above $1 trillion if the company fulfills a set of rigorous benchmarks over the next decade, according to a securities filing on Friday.
Musk would rake in roughly $900 billion over the duration of the agreement, making him the best-compensated CEO ever recorded.
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/40-399-5730359-385-009-2025.pdf
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1985 -- 6 a.m. EST EDITION
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NATIONAL NEWS
(Washington Post)
Fraud Is Charged In Divad Contract -- General Dynamics Corp. and NASA Administrator James Beggs were indicted on charges of trying to defraud the government.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925087598/tm252289-4_pre14a.htm
https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000110465925087862/tm2525337d1_8k-gen.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Securities_and_Exchange_Commission
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
From Wikipedia
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Its primary purpose is to enforce laws against market manipulation.
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Back to the Future (1985)
Quotes
[referring to the DeLorean]
Marty McFly: This is heavy-duty, Doc. This is great. Uh, does it run, like, on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately, no. It requires something with a little more kick. Plutonium.
Marty McFly: Um, plutonium. Wait a minute. Are...
[lowers the camcorder]
Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is NUCLEAR?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey! Keep rolling. Keep rolling there.
[Marty raises the camcorder]
Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Of course.
by me, Kerry Burgess, August 28, 2018
I wonder if that's the same day I remember graduating from United States Navy basic training in Orlando.
Must have been.
The uncertainty in my mind is because of vague memories I still have about those last days before we left.
I can still visualize that last day, had my seabag and sunglasses on and the company commander sending us off and I can visualize myself walking for the last time out the door of that barracks we had been in for 8 weeks.
I went across base to begin Basic Electricity and Electronics School for the Electronics Technician occupation rating, a rating I chose because it was one of only two ratings in the Advanced Electronics Field, along with Fire Controlman, and the ET rating required several more weeks of electronics training than FC and I found that appealing to me.
I had spent over a year - a total of 419 days to be exact - on a shakedown period for the USS Taylor FFG-50 where I had many responsibilities including being responsible for the boatswain locker, helmsman, lookout, repair locker personnel, damage control, others , including helicopter flight deck crewman
All I know for certain is my official military records tell me I was transferred from basic training by the United States Navy on Monday, July 16, 1984.
The previous Friday was the 13th.
The details I vaguely recall are about how my company, C155, finished the course of instruction several days before the other company's finished. The reason, I vaguely recall, is that several companies began the course of instruction during the same week but on different days of the week. So we started on a day before the others started and we finished a few days before the last company finished. If we started on a Monday then others started on Friday. So we finished on a Monday and they finished on a Friday. But we all graduated on the same day, which I believe was a Friday and I have reason to believe was the 13th.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Quotes
Keys: Elliott, that machine, what does it do?
Elliott: [in a sickly voice] The communicator? Is it still working?
Keys: It's doing *something*. What?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000110465925087862/tm2525337d1_8k-gen.pdf
From 11/4/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Date Completed - US Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 9/3/2025 ( ) is 14183 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/1/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "Roadtrip Nation" ) is 14183 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 9/3/2025 ( ) is 21117 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/27/2023 ( ) is 21117 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: August 27, 2023 Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
Ceres.
That would be definitely be my first stop, to build up my manufacturing base of operations and progression
You monkey Earthers can have the Moon and Mars and inward.
Outward from Ceres would be mine
And there are plenty of Earther politicians, I am sure, can be bribed
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: August 27, 2023 Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, book 1)
Chapter 34
It had to be in there someplace. The moment when it - whatever it was - got loose. But either it had happened in some unmonitored crew quarters or it had bn there from the beginning.
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Futureworld (1976)
Quotes
Tracy Ballard: Don't you think it's dangerous to rely too much on the robots? Don't you think something could go wrong again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
From 1/7/1943 ( biographical - Nikola Tesla dead ) To 11/4/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Date Completed - US Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 16007 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/30/2009 ( ) is 16007 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 8/30/2009 ( ) is 5927 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/24/1982 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Time & Space Travel" ) is 5927 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 - previously referenced: Backstory 001 ) To 8/30/2009 ( ) is 1197 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1969 ( Jennifer Aniston ) is 1197 days
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312510017054/dex1016.htm
From 5/9/1986 ( premiere USA film "Short Circuit" AND as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: Fire Control Technician Class "A" - Great Lakes, Illinois - Date Enrolled ) To 9/28/2009 ( ) is 8543 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/24/1989 ( the Exxon Valdez oil spill ) is 8543 days
From 6/27/1900 ( William McKinley, 25th President of USA federal government 1897-1901: Executive Order ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 32072 days
32072 = 16036 + 16036
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/28/2009 ( ) is 16036 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 9/28/2009 ( ) is 7874 days
7874 = 3937 + 3937
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1976 ( premiere USA film "Futureworld" ) is 3937 days
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312510017054/dex1016.htm
EX-10.16 17 dex1016.htm OFFER LETTER - JON SOBEL
Exhibit 10.16
August 30, 2009
Jon Sobel
Re: Offer of Employment with Tesla Motors
Dear Jon:
Tesla Motors, Inc. is pleased to offer you the position of General Counsel and Secretary on the terms set forth below.
As General Counsel and Secretary, you will perform the duties customarily associated with these positions, including (a) primary responsibility for the selection of Tesla’s outside legal advisors and (b) attendance at all board of directors meetings (other than Executive Sessions) and documentation and support of corporate governance matters. You will report to Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer. Your duties, responsibilities, job title, and work location may be changed at any time by Tesla.
Your salary will be $300,000 per year, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings. As an exempt employee, you will not be entitled to overtime. You will be eligible for vacation and sick leave according to Tesla’s standard policy. You will also be eligible to receive all other benefits Tesla may provide to its employees (e.g., health and dental insurance coverage) after your enrollment on a date to be determined. Tesla may consider you for bonuses, although the amount of such bonuses, if any, and the criteria for determining the award of such bonuses, if any, shall be in the sole discretion of Tesla. Of course, Tesla reserves the right to modify your compensation and benefits from time to time, as it deems necessary.
Subject to the approval of Tesla’s Board of Directors, you will be granted a stock option to purchase an aggregate of 400,000 shares of Tesla’s Common Stock pursuant to Tesla’s Equity Incentive Plan then in effect. Your stock options will vest commencing upon your first day of employment (1/4th of the shares vest one year after the Vesting Commencement Date, and 1/48th of the shares vest monthly thereafter over the next three years).
You will also have change in control protections substantially similar to Deepak Ahuja’s.
By accepting this offer, you represent and warrant that your employment with Tesla will not violate any agreements, obligations or understandings that you may have with any third party or prior employer. We want to emphasize that we do not wish you to bring any confidential or proprietary materials of any former employer which would violate any obligations you may have to your former employer. You further represent and warrant that you have read, understand, and accept the terms of your Stock Option Agreement, in particular, the vesting schedule of the shares of Tesla’s Common Stock thereof. You agree not to make any unauthorized disclosure to Tesla or use on
behalf of Tesla any confidential information belonging to any of your former employers (except in accordance with agreements between Tesla and any such former employer). You also warrant that you do not possess any property containing a third party’s confidential and proprietary information. Of course, during your employment with Tesla, you may make use of information generally known and used by persons with training and experience comparable to your own, and information which is common knowledge in the industry or is otherwise legally available in the public domain.
As a Tesla employee, you will be expected to abide by all Tesla policies and procedures, and, as a condition of your employment, you will sign and comply with Tesla’s standard confidentiality agreement which prohibits unauthorized use or disclosure of Tesla confidential information or the confidential information of Tesla’s clients.
You may terminate your employment with Tesla at any time and for any reason whatsoever simply by notifying Tesla. Likewise, Tesla may terminate your employment at any time and for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause or advance notice. This at-will employment relationship cannot be changed except by a writing authorized on behalf of an officer of Tesla.
To ensure the rapid and economical resolution of disputes that may arise in connection with your employment with Tesla, you and Tesla agree that any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action, in law or equity, arising from or relating to your employment, or the termination of your employment, will be resolved, to the fullest extent permitted by law per Attachment A.
This letter agreement constitutes the complete, final and exclusive embodiment of the entire agreement between you and Tesla with respect to the terms and conditions of your employment, and it supersedes any other agreements or promises made to you by anyone, whether oral or written. This Agreement cannot be changed, amended, or modified except in a written agreement signed by an officer of Tesla. This letter agreement shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California.
This offer of employment is contingent upon the following:
Your ability to provide and maintain the proper and necessary documentation required for you and Tesla to comply with all applicable United States immigration laws and regulations. Please be prepared on your first day of employment to show specific documentation to certify your legal right to work in the United States.
Your execution (signature) of the Tesla Employee Agreement which protects the intellectual property and confidential information of Tesla, and prohibits the unauthorized use of the intellectual property and confidential information of any other company.
The satisfactory review and/or verification of background information, including, but not limited to, prior employment, reference checks, education, Department of Motor Vehicles, Social Security, and criminal records.
The effective date of your employment is to be September 28, 2009.
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We look forward to your favorable reply and to a productive and enjoyable work relationship.
Very truly yours,
Tesla Motors, Inc.
/s/ Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Accepted by:
/s/Jon Sobel
Date: 8/30/09
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-168
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The Simpsons (TV Series)
Mom and Pop Art (1999)
Quotes
Bart Simpson: Are you sure this is art, not vandalism?
Homer: That's for the courts to decide
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:01 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 09/08/2025
