Everyone has their price, but for one former lawyer for the company, it was nearly $30 million.
A recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows that a lawyer for the electric car maker defected to a competitor in favor of $29.5 million in stock options.
In addition to the attractive stock benefits, the company gave him a comfortable $50,000 bonus and raised his salary to $300,000.
The relationship betweenLuminar andTesla has been strained for years.
The company's light detection and ranging software, known as LIDAR, which uses lasers to detect light, is one that Musk has trashed many times.
According to an anonymous source, Musk's trash-talking was toned down last year when it was reported that the Model Y was photographed atop a LIDAR sensor.
After the photos were posted, the stock price of the company rose.
According to the SEC filing, the turncoat lawyer was the acting general counsel for four years atTesla, and prior to that was senior legal counsel for the Advanced Technology Group.
This automotive tech job-hopping gives credibility to the argument that when it comes to Prescott's buyout, it's business as usual for a competitor. This story is oddly ironic because of Musk's stance against the company and his alleged quiet patronage.
Ex-Tesla top lawyer gets $30 million to join a startup.
Musk said that he wouldn't use the tech that it is now using.
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