gates vs. musk
gates zkousi muska zlakat na filantropicke projekty. Jenze,
When Walter Isaacson asked Gates why he had shorted Tesla, he explained that "he had calculated that the supply of electric cars would get ahead of demand, causing prices to fall." Walter nodded but still had the same question: Why had he shorted the stock? Gates looked at him as if I had not understood what he just explained and then replied as if the answer was obvious: He thought that by shorting Tesla he could make money.
Short-sellers occupied his (Musk) innermost circle of hell. Gates said he was sorry, but that did not placate Musk. “I apologized to him,” Gates said. “Once he heard I’d shorted the stock, he was super mean to me, but he’s super mean to so many people, so you can’t take it too personally.”
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That way of thinking was alien to Musk. He believed in the mission of moving the world to electric vehicles, and he put all of his available money toward that goal, even when it did not seem like a safe investment. “How can someone say they are passionate about fighting climate change and then do something that reduced the overall investment in the company doing the most?” he asked me a few days after Gates’ visit. “It’s pure hypocrisy. Why make money on the failure of a sustainable energy car company?”
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Gates followed up in mid-April, sending Musk the promised paper on philanthropy options that he had personally written. Musk responded by text with a simple question: “Do you still have a half billion dollar short position against Tesla?”
Gates was sitting in the dining room of the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, D.C., with his son Rory, who was just starting graduate school. He laughed, showed Rory the text, and asked for his advice on how to answer.
“Just say yes, and then change the subject quickly,” Rory suggested.
Gates tried that. “Sorry to say I haven’t closed it out,” he texted back. “I would like to discuss philanthropy possibilities.”
Musk: furious.
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Celkově je fakt škoda, že se miliardáři nemůžou domluvit a něco s tím klimatem a dalšími problémy udělat společně. Asi prokletí kapitalismu, priorita je bojovat proti sobě.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/10/bill-gates-and-elon-musk-an-excerpt-from-walter-isaacson-musk-bio.html