Kamal Ghorui
Elon Musk has hit back at billionaire investor Vinod Khosla after a social media exchange about race. The row began when Musk said that the population of White people on earth is reducing.In a post on X, Musk said: “White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population.”Khosla replied and said Musk doesn’t want MAGA (Make American Great Again) but WAGA (white America great again) in US. He claimed that Musk said it because “racism is great and desirable paradigm.” Khosla added, “All non-whites in Tesla and SpaceX and all decent whites should quit and join our portfolio. Email us your LinkedIn!”The Tesla boss responded and called Khosla “pompous,” saying his partner is half-Indian: “You’ve also gone full r***rd. My partner, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son with her is named in honor of the great Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.”
Musk’s partner Shivon Alice Zilis is a Canadian technology executive and venture capitalist. She was born in 1986 to a Punjabi Indian mother and a Canadian father. She studied economics and philosophy at Yale University. She has held roles at IBM, Bloomberg Beta, and OpenAI, and now works at Musk’s Neuralink. She and Musk have four children, including twins Strider and Azure, daughter Arcadia, and son Seldon Lycurgus, whose middle name, Sekhar, honours Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur, born in Pune in 1955. He co-founded Sun Microsystems, spent 18 years at Kleiner Perkins, and later founded Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm that invests in technology, biotech, energy, and AI. He has backed companies including OpenAI and DoorDash. Musk has repeatedly criticised OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on several aspects in the past. The ex-DOGE leader often compares his own Artificial intelligence model Grok with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
