In a tweet on Friday, the Tesla CEO admitted that he asked Gates if he was short-selling shares of the electric carmaker.
Gates toldlast year: "It's important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to climate change anyone's ever made. And you know, underestimating Elon is not a good idea."
But he went on to add that what Tesla was doing was "easy stuff, like passenger cars." Gates emphasized the need to make a greater impact on climate change by tackling other industries. "We're basically not doing enough on the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat," he said at that time. "And sadly, the things people think about — the electricity, passenger cars — are a third of the problem. So we have to work on the two-thirds."
"If all you pay attention to is those short-term metrics, not the green premiums across the board, then you miss out on what is the longest lead time, which is the hard stuff."When Gates revealed in 2020 that he bought himself an all-electric Porsche Taycan, a Twitter user asked: "I wonder why Bill Gates decided to go with the Taycan instead of a Tesla.": "My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming tbh [to be honest].
Musk has also previously speculated on the possibility of Gates shorting his company's stock. Asked about those comments and whether he was short Tesla,
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