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During the past two decades, SpaceX has hired thousands of staff and granted them boatloads of restricted stock units, incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options that have vested over time.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Musk hasn’t yet exercised any of the options that have vested thus far; in McCormick’s view, that makes reversing the pay package a relatively simple matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

“It’s awesome because everybody who sits in that room or everybody who has a seat at the table, we all have vested interest,” Spikes said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022

But this is why "We the People" have vested in our government the power to regulate commerce.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2021

The retailer and middle-man appear to have vested rights nowadays.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles