While Tesla’s future is played out both on the stock market and in court, its board of directors has just granted Elon Musk 96 million shares, worth 29 billion dollars. This spectacular choice comes as the company goes through a turbulent period. Far from a simple bonus, this decision reveals a declared dependency on a leader who is as admired as he is controversial. Tesla bets on Musk, at all costs, at the risk of exacerbating tensions between individual power and collective interest.