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Musk responded: "Bill Gates once shorted Tesla massively - 1% of our total shares, which may have cost him more than $10 billion by now."
Musk revealed in 2022 that he discovered that Gates had spent $500 million shorting Tesla stock in 2018, undermining the confidence of ordinary investors during a critical period for the company.
Musk posted last month that if Gates hasn't fully closed his nearly eight-year short position on Tesla, he'd better do so soon.