Only last week, the influential proxy adviser ISS told shareholders to vote against the pay package, while a week earlier, its fellow adviser Glass Lewis said the award was of an "excessive size", which seems a mild description of $56bn. With the blunt language that is so often characteristic of the Musk team, Robyn Denholm, Tesla's chairman, has dismissed criticism of the package as "crap" and "total BS", while Musk himself has started dropping heavy hints that he would rather go off and concentrate on his other businesses if he doesn't get the rewards he feels he is entitled to for running Tesla. In fairness, if anyone is worth a pay package of that size it is probably Musk.