Who is Vaibhav Taneja? The Tesla CFO who out-earned Pichai and Nadella

Tesla’s chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja has been a trending topic since his pay package made headlines on Tuesday. The Indian-origin executive reportedly earned $139 million in 2024, significantly higher than the pay of top executives like Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of Google.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, paid a total salary of $10.73 million to Pichai while Microsoft’s Satya Nadella earned $79.1 million in 2024.

Experts pointed out that the jaw-dropping figure of $139 million is not the cash he takes home but…