- Musk shot down Gates’ attempts to talk about giving to charity after Gates shorted Tesla stock.
- “He was super mean to me, but he’s super mean to so many people, so you can’t take it too personally,” Gates said about Musk.
- Their exchange was detailed in an excerpt published in CNBC from Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography of Musk.
An excerpt of an upcoming biography of Elon Musk sheds light on what Musk and Bill Gates thought of each other following a negative exchange over Gates taking a short position against Musk’s Tesla.
In early 2022, Gates was chatting to Musk about philanthropy, having proposed that Musk donate to refugees, American education, finding a cure for AIDS, mosquito eradication, and climate-resistant seeds, according to Walter Isaacson, a writer who spent three years trailing the Tesla CEO.
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