Finally, a Twitter article about Elon Musk doesn’t involve his potentially purchasing the site. The Tesla CEO headed to Twitter (where he has a lot of awful posts) to confirm a story that he had passed down a chance to work with Bill Gates because of some good old-fashioned rich guy bickering.
It all started when an account named Whole Mars Catalog shared multiple screenshots purporting to depict a text interaction between Musk and Gates earlier that evening.
Elon Musk asks Gates if he had a $500 million short stock position against Tesla throughout the call. That means that, rather than the typical investing technique of putting money into a company and hoping it succeeds, Gates would benefit financially if Tesla’s value fell.
Gates confirms that he does, suggests that the two collaborate on philanthropy, and is swiftly shut down by Musk for, oh, wishing Tesla fails.
So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar 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 pic.twitter.com/iuHkDG3bAd
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) April 22, 2022
Although the truth of the texts had not been proven in the original post, Elon Musk did what Musk does and jumped in himself. He said that it was genuine, but that he had not leaked it. (Mashable has not verified the text exchange’s legitimacy.)
@elonmusk is this real lol
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) April 22, 2022
What exactly does this imply for you and me? Really, not much. It’s mostly just Elon Musk getting a little messy over an alleged chat he had with another man who is tremendously wealthy.
This, I suppose, is the subject of wealthy people’s debates. Given Musk’s track record, it might be prudent to explore the chance that the texts aren’t authentic. You never know what might happen.
If the screenshots are genuine, the most obvious conclusion is: Bill…green texts? Really? Let’s face it, man.
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