The net worth of Tesla CEO, Elon Reeve Musk, has surged to $749 billion on Friday, after the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated Tesla stock options worth $139 billion that were voided last in 2024, according to Forbes’ billionaires index.
His pay package which was worth US$56 billion in 2018, was restored by the Delaware Supreme Court on Friday, December 19, 2025, two years after a lower court struck down the compensation deal as “unfathomable.”
The Delaware apex court in its ruling said the 2024 ruling that rescinded the pay package was improper and inequitable to Musk.
Earlier this week, Musk became the first person ever to surpass $600 billion in net worth on the heels of reports that his aerospace startup SpaceX was likely to go public.
In November, Tesla shareholders separately approved a $1 trillion pay plan for Musk, the largest corporate pay package in history, as investors endorsed his vision of morphing the Electronic Vehicle (EV) maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Musk’s fortune now exceeds that of Google co-founder, Larry Page, the world’s second-richest person, by nearly US$500 billion, according to Forbes’ billionaires list.
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