By now you’ve likely heard the news that Tesla has awarded Elon Musk 96 million shares of the company, valued at $29 billion. Despite his foray into politics contributing to a 25% drop in the company’s stock price. Despite his market-moving feud with the president. Despite his intention to start a new political party, which has also impacted the stock— and not in a good way . Now, you might be thinking: Wait, if everything Musk has done lately has been bad for Tesla, why is the board making him nearly $30 billion richer, as opposed to showing him the door, as would typically be the case in corporate America? “The point of view of Tesla investors is that they just don’t have a choice,” Max Chafkin, cohost of the Elon, Inc. podcast, tells Vanity Fair. “You can’t threaten to fi

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