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They're returning the equivalent of 3 million stock options. They gave themselves 11 million stock options between 2017-2020, which means they're still getting around $2 billion for being on the board. They're not returning everything over $1 million at all.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/tesla-directors-settle-lawsuit...

Do you have an opinion on whether the work they've done is worth $2 billion?

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>Do you have an opinion on whether the work they've done is worth $2 billion?

Their market cap went up by 1 trillion.

Again, they were just compensated in equity. It's easy to look back and criticize them as overcompensated but at the time they were just receiving equity worth a fraction of what it is today.

At the time they were getting close to 10-20x more than an typical board member of an S&P 500 company. The lawsuit was brought up before the stock took off.

Detractors seem to have short memories.

They were cash strapped and almost bankrupt, the most shorted company of all time and they paid out in equity. They were able to flip it around and become of the all time great success stories, I'd say their directors probably earned their compensation.

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