Bill Gates: Elon Musk’s dream of conquering Mars is a waste of money!

“Honestly, the interactions between me and Gates are very bad,” Elon Musk also has to admit.

In an interview with the BBC news agency, Microsoft founder Bill Gates shared candidly about billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of conquering Mars.

This billionaire questioned Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars when SpaceX is spending too much money on aerospace, rockets … while the world is in need of other things.

When asked if this is a good investment, billionaire Bill Gates denied: “I don’t think so.”

According to the Microsoft founder, investing in things like developing a vaccine is an even better way to spend money than sending people to Mars.

“Sending people to Mars is quite expensive. You can absolutely buy a measles vaccine to save lives for $ 1,000 per life … So don’t go to Mars to do anything, “said billionaire Bill Gates.

According to CNBC, Elon Musk and Bill Gates have had a history of quarreling with each other for many years. In April 2022, billionaire Musk once asked Bill Gates if he had sold Tesla shares short, implying that the Microsoft founder thinks the electric car company’s shares will fall. The irony is that Tesla stock actually fell when Elon Musk got caught up in the Twitter acquisition.

In 2020, Bill Gates posted on Twitter the purchase of a Taycan electric car from Porsche and one user commented: “I wonder why Bill Gates decided to choose Taycan over Tesla?”

Immediately, Elon Musk replied: “Honestly, the interactions between me and Gates are very bad.”

Previously, Elon Musk often expressed doubts to Bill Gates about the Microsoft founder short selling Tesla shares.

When asked about the issue, Bill Gates told CNBC in 2022: “I don’t want to talk about my investments, but I think he should be proud of what he’s done. can do”.

In a February 2021 interview with Bloomberg news agency, when asked about Elon Musk’s doubts, Bill Gates wished he had more faith in Tesla, thereby hinting that Musk’s accusations could be truth.

Short selling is the act of selling a security that the investor does not own in the hope that it will decrease in price and the investor can close the trade to make a profit from the price difference.

Returning to the interview with BBC news, Bill Gates also affirmed that Elon Musk did not meet the standards to be a philanthropist, but this could change in the future.

“Things Tesla is developing have a positive impact on society even though they are not a direct form of charity. I think one day he (Elon Musk) will join the ranks of philanthropists with his ingenuity,” Bill Gates said.

*Source: CNBC