The public feud between two of the world’s richest people keeps unfolding as Elon Musk hit back at Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, who had just played down his tune on shorting Tesla stocks.
Despite claiming that Tesla’s done a fantastic job, Gates said during an interview with French YouTuber HugoDécrypte that he had paid out more tackling climate change than Musk—who then responded in one word—“Sigh”—via Twitter on June 4. The Tesla CEO has recently cast doubts on Gates’ goodwill in fighting climate change given the latter’s short position against the electric carmaker.
“I give a lot more money to climate change than Elon or anyone else. I give a lot of philanthropic dollars, I back companies,” Gates said in his recent talk. “Electric cars are about 16 percent of emissions, so we also need to solve that other 84 percent.”…