Bill Gates says Elon Musk could not be pressured with Steve Jobs and that electric powered automobiles are 'some distance simpler' than different weather extrade technology

• Bill Gates does not assume it is honest to call Elon Musk "the following Steve Jobs," the billionaire philanthropist stated throughout an interview on Bloomberg TV Thursday.
• When requested via way of means of Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker if Musk changed into certainly the following Jobs, Gates replied: "If you understand human beings personally, that type of gross oversimplification appears strange. Elon’s extra of a hands-on engineer; Steve changed into a genius at layout and choosing human beings and marketing. You couldn’t stroll right into a room and confuse them with every different."
• Gates stated he has amazing recognize for Musk and praised Tesla's product, however additionally stated, "the issue on the alternative areas [of the battle against climate change] is a good deal higher. I’m now no longer trivializing in any manner the want to elevate the marketplace percentage of [electric vehicles], however on a relative basis, this is some distance simpler than the commercial financial system wherein our development is very, very small."
• Tesla stocks have surged in latest months, tripling Musk's internet really well worth as well.
• Gates refused to chime in on whether or not Tesla's inventory is overvalued, saying "the questions of what’s the right consistent with vehicle and what’s the marketplace percentage of Tesla — that’s for inventory human beings, that’s now no longer a weather extrade trouble at all."
• Gates' comments are the trendy in a chain of digs the two billionaires have taken at every during the last six months, together with whilst Musk tweeted that his conversations with Gates have been "underwhelming" and Gates stated Musk's "positioning is to keep a excessive stage of outrageous comments," Business Insider formerly reported.