for short sellers who bet against the EV maker, so when it turned out that Gates himself made a $1.5 billion bet that Tesla would go down in value, Musk was furious.
"I apologized to him," Gates told Isaacson. "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."a cruel dig comparing Gates to the "pregnant man" emoji, adding the caption "in case u need to lose a boner fast."by Musk himself, revealed that Gates still had a half-billion dollar position against Tesla.
"At this point, I am convinced that he is categorically insane ," Musk later texted Isaacson. "I did actually want to like him ."on X-formerly-Twitter, to Gates buying a Porsche Taycan instead of a Tesla."You can feel whatever you want about Elon’s behavior," Gates said at a 2022 dinner in Washington, DC, as quoted by Isaacson, "but there is no one in our time who has done more to push the bounds of science and innovation than he has.