More CEOs want Elon Musk–style ‘moonshot’ pay packages—but comp experts are raising alarms

fortune.com/2025/10/05/elon-musk-moonshot-ceo-pay-stock-options

The all-or-nothing moonshot pay plan was a gambit so risky even Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith’s wife was against it.
But Smith had started getting antsy around 2016, as he was approaching three decades at the company, Axon compensation committee chair Hadi Partovi told Fortune. Smith…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-10-05 10:04:00.
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