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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Tesla Industry: Automotive

Where does anyone even file him now? Elon Musk runs the world’ s most valuable carmaker while building rockets, robots, chip factories and a social network, an arrangement no governance textbook endorses. Tesla sits mid-metamorphosis, from selling cars to selling autonomy, with robotaxis spreading city by city and Optimus inching toward production. This year added Terafab, the US $ 16.8bn chip plant Tesla and SpaceX are building near College Station. Shareholders ratified a pay package worth up to US $ 1tn to keep him interested. Erratic, exhausting, occasionally unbearable, he remains the century’ s most consequential industrialist.

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