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- Elon Musk blasted short-sellers as "leeches" and bemoaned their access to inside information.
- Bill Gates, Michael Burry, David Einhorn, and Jim Chanos have all targeted Tesla in recent years.
- Musk recalled the short-selling pressure he faced in 2018 in Walter Isaacson's new biography of him.
Elon Musk has railed against short-sellers, slamming them as bloodsuckers who seek to profit from companies failing, and blasting them for nosing around his factories in 2018.
"They are leeches on the neck of business," he told Walter Isaacson for the biographer's new book, "Elon Musk."
"They had up-to-date data from sources in the company and drones that flew over our factory giving them numbers in real time," Musk told Isaacson. "They organized themselves into a shorty ground force and a shorty air force. The degree of inside information they had was insane."