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2024-04-22 00:29:00
Elon Musk y Bill Gates They are two giant businessmen of technological world and one of the most influential people in the world. The confrontation between these two visionaries revealed fundamental differences in their approaches and generated public and private exchanges that exposed their disagreements.
But there was one important meeting, which would open a new chapter in the history of technology and Innovation. But what appeared to be the prelude to a friendly and productive dialogue between Musk and Gates led to estrangement. Musk knows regarding complicated relationships and it approaches him.
“I would like to come to you and talk to you regarding philanthropy y climate“, he told Bill Gates one Elon Musk at an event they met at in early 2022. The interaction between the two richest and most powerful people had been cordial and friendly, but things were regarding to change.
They agreed to organize another visit Giga Factory de Tesla, in Texas. It was the scene of the dispute characterized by differences in approach i philanthropyinvestments, Climate changes, renewable energythe vision of Martha e artificial intelligence. Two worldviews that led to public confrontations.
According to the writer Walter Isaacson in the magnate’s biography, Elon Musk, that meeting began by sharing similarities in their analytical approach and their ability to challenge the boundaries of innovation. However, disagreements soon arose that revealed the deep differences between these two visionary leaders.
“You can think a lot of things regarding Elon’s behavior, but in our time, no one has done more to push the boundaries of science and innovation than him,” Gates told Isaacson, though he doesn’t bridge the great distance between them .
Elon Musk has always admired Bill Gates. He loved Windows NT and Microsoft. Elon had even interned at Microsoft’s Toronto office in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
“He always liked Microsoft operating system more than most techniciansmight he identify with a guy who had built a company by showing off hardcorerelentless and strict,” writes Musk’s biographer.
The problem continues. Musk and Gates are united by several points in common, which makes them as similar as they are prone to clash with each other. One of the most notable similarities between them is their analytical approach and his ability to concentrate intensely in their projects.
Isaacson also says that they share “an intellectual balance bordering on arrogance” and that “neither suffers fools.”
But the similarities would be put aside following the visit to the factory. During his tour of Musk’s gigafactory, Gates expressed his reviews regarding batteries and solar energy. Because? For Gates, batteries might never provide the power needed for large trucks, and solar energy would play no significant role in solving the climate crisis.
“I showed him the numbers. It’s an area where I obviously knew things that he doesn’t know, Gates says in Musk’s biography of that moment.
The creator of Microsoft also put his finger on the problem: he made criticism regarding the colonization of Mars. Despite his admiration for the technology and innovation of SpaceXGates did not share Musk’s obsession with Mars, which led to a peculiar and revealing exchange of ideas.
“I don’t see the Mars thing. He is possessed by Mars. I let him explain his ideas on the subject, which are really peculiar. It is a pretty crazy approach where, if there is a nuclear war on Earth and there are people on Mars, those people will come back to Earth and they will still be alive following all the rest of us have killed each other,” Gates confessed to Isaacson.
The tech entrepreneur was amazed by the factory and Musk’s detailed knowledge of machinery and processes. Also for Starlink y SpaceX – something that Gates’ son, Rory, particularly admired and had gone on tour with – but differences remained.
The conversation then went to philanthropy, a topic that sparked a series of disagreements and confrontations between Gates and Musk. While Gates devoted most of his time to philanthropy and offered suggestions to Musk, the latter expressed skepticism regarding its real impact.
At the end of the trip, Gates showed him a list of five projects, each hundred million dollars. Which is it? Refugeesschools in the United States, a cure for HIVexterminate someone mosquito-borne diseases through gene therapy and genetically modified seeds that will resist the effects of climate change.
Musk defined all this as “a hoax”. There was a reason behind it anger from Musk: the short selling Tesla shares by Gates.
The dispute reached its end crucial point when Gates assumed he had shorted Tesla shares for $500,000, drawing Musk’s ire and triggering a series of public and private exchanges that revealed fundamental differences in their approaches and strategies.
Musk regarded Gates’ maneuver as contradictory, given Tesla’s efforts in energy sustainability. According to Isaacson, the owner of the social network X was furious, but although Gates apologized, the anger persisted.
“I said sorry. When he found out he had short-sold the stock, he was very rude to mebut he’s so rude to so many people that you can’t take him too personally,” Gates notes in Musk’s biography.
“How is it possible for a person to say they are very involved in the fight once morest climate change and then do things that reduce the overall investment in the company that is doing the most for it? It is clean Hypocrisy. “Why profit from the failure of a sustainable energy company?” Musk wrote to his biographer in a message, days following Gates’ visit to the factory.
Gates got in touch once more following a while with a personal message to Musk, since the creator of SpaceX does not have an assistant.
“Do you still have a half billion dollar short position once morest Tesla?” Musk told him.
“I’m sorry to say I haven’t closed it.” “I would like to comment on some of the philanthropic options,” Gates replied.
Then Musk immediately replied: “I’m sorry. I can’t take your climate philanthropy seriously when you have a huge short position once morest Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change.
Controversies and controversies continued between them.
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