MUSK VS GATES
Elon Musk Bitter Feud With Bill Gates Over $2 Billion Tesla Stock Shorting
The Big Short
The feud is real and it can even get nastier as new reports say that Bill Gates poured millions into a dark money fund attacking Elon Musk. No doubt when big egos collide expect no one to concede. Instead, they will double down on their attacks, but in the end, there can only be one winner.
Who will it be, will it be Elon Musk or Bill Gates? I would love to see your vote in the comment section.
How did the two billionaires end up as bitter enemies? They aren’t competitors. Bill Gates has long been ‘retired’ and his focus is on solving the world’s biggest problems including climate change or visiting Jeff Epstein when the sex offender was still alive.
Was it because Musk is now the world’s richest man alive, a position once held by Gates? Or was it when Bill Gates bought himself a Porsche Taycan over a Tesla?
It was the first time that Musk called Gates, ‘underwhelming’ in public.
Now that I’m writing these words, could it be that Musk has some unresolved ‘daddy issues?’
Errol Musk, Elon’s dad is not a pleasant man to be around according to this story.
It could be, that he wants to be recognized for his achievements by Tech Titans like Bill Gates, and by Steve Jobs if he was alive. He would try to take Jobs too if the tech legend would ‘ignore’ him, like what Gates appears to be doing to Elon.
And when Steve Jobs was alive nobody can come close to him being the darling of the tech world. A position now Elon may feel to have inherited, just look at how he goes on Twitter and ‘appears to be looking for affirmation’ from his 96.6 million followers.
You will be surprised that he tweets almost daily. And while he says the reason for him buying the social network for $44 billion is to protect free speech, IMHO it could be that Twitter gives him the dopamine he needs to be at the top of his game.
Because he may think for the first time in history, the world’s richest man (him) is also the most beloved, neither Gates nor Jobs was able to claim both titles.
The Big Short
Remember the movie? If you haven’t seen it, you better watch it to understand the concept of ‘shorting.’
Short selling is an investment or trading strategy that speculates on the decline in a stock or other security’s price.
One day, Bill Gates calls Elon, he wants him to be on board with his plan to save the planet.
But what Gates didn’t know is that Musk knew that he has a short position on Tesla stocks, and we aren’t talking about thousands of dollars, nor millions, it was half a billion worth of Tesla stocks.
And that Gates is betting that the stock would go under, because that is how an investor makes money from short selling a stock, when the stock tanks, or in other words, ‘fail.’
How the public learned about it is where Musk’s social media savvy skills come into play, from the very few Twitter accounts that he follows, he retweets this explosive exposé.
So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a halfbilliondollar short position on $TSLA. Bill said he hasn’t closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost. No idea if this is true lol — Twitter
Soon Bill Gates become a trending topic (again), and Musk doesn’t need to lift a finger.
It only takes a single tweet to start a fight. Musk compared the 66-year-old Gates to a pregnant man emoji, and his army of Twitter supporters went into attack mode.
All the fake news about Bill Gates is recycled on Twitter.
To this day, even Gates can’t fully explain why he is short-selling Tesla, all that he claims is that it is an investment strategy, and it’s nothing personal.
But with Musk everything about Tesla is personal, he and the brand are one.
That $500 million has now ballooned to $2 billion if we believe Elon Musk’s calculation and accusation leveled against Gates.
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates poured millions into Dark Money Fund attacking Elon Musk — Breibart
The problem is that it comes from Breibart which as everyone know is a far-right website that in the past has been known to spread fake news including attacks on Barack Obama and women.
Why is Musk even sharing the story? It only proves to his critics that once his Twitter buyout is finalized, the social media platform will be radicalized by the far-right agenda.
Research exclusively shared with Breitbart News identifies hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from Bill Gates’ foundation to 11 of the 26 organizations that signed an open letter last month urging Twitter advertisers to boycott the company if Elon Musk restores free speech on the platform. — Excerpt, Breibart Exclusive.
I haven’t seen any story that can confirm the Breiart exclusive from sources that are far more credible than Breibart. — Author’s note.
On Twitter, Elon Musk answered with a ‘Sigh’ which later on escalated to ‘What a di*k move!’ A tweet that has since been widely shared and some call Bill Gates evil.
Final words
While Musk appears to be winning on Twitter, is Gates bothered at all? Every time Elon tweets about him, it gives him free publicity which can even help him sell more of his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.
Gates at every opportunity downplays their feud. He would even praise Musk for all the things he had done with Tesla.
And yet Gates would dish him out in public, call it a subtle jab by also casting doubt as to the future of Twitter once the social media platform becomes Musk’s property.
“I don’t think whether one is short or long on Tesla is a statement about your seriousness about climate change. I’m putting billions of dollars into climate change innovation. I applaud Tesla’s role in helping with climate change,” Gates said.
Only time can tell if they will ever work together, with their money a lot of good can come out, and saving the planet could be one of them.
But both guys have big egos, and this reminds me of another feud, the one between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
It never ended.
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Bill Gates Exposed: He Is Short Selling the Stock Of Tesla Worth $500 Million
Billionaires at war! Elon Musk deepens feud with Bill Gates
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