Elon Musk on political spending: “I think I’ve done enough” |
Elon Musk on political spending: “I think I’ve done enough” |
Elon Musk needs little introduction. His acumen has transformed the business of electric vehicles and getting to space, and he has more recently been at the right hand of US President Donald Trump. The entrepreneur’s influence is everywhere, but his iconoclasm has also made him a magnet for controversy.
Tesla has experienced a pronounced backlash – you might have seen the stickers: “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy” – and Bill Gates recently accused Musk of being responsible for killing children by pushing massive cuts to US foreign aid. To get Musk’s reactions to as many of these points as possible, Bloomberg Weekend Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain sat down (virtually) with him at the Qatar Economic Forum on May 20. Here’s our conversation, lightly edited for clarity.
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