Elon Musk and Bill Gates have argued over everything from climate change to the pandemic. Here's how their disagreements started — and everything that's happened since.

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Elon Musk and Bill Gates have had a number of apparent feuds over the years.

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Elon Musk's famous family includes a movie producer, dirt-bike rider, and several millionaire cousins

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Elon Musk appears to be close with his mother Maye Musk.

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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' the original concept, according to the new Elon Musk biography

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Some Tesla engineers weren't fans of Elon Musk's plans for the Cybertruck.

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Who are Elon Musk's children? The names and bios of his kids and their mothers

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has nine children.

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Elon Musk's spouse history includes 2 ex-wives, 3 marriages, and no known, current partner

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Elon Musk (left) and Justine Musk (right)

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When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand

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Kimbal Musk and Elon Musk.

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Musk's college friend quit working with him at Zip2 after only 6 weeks: 'I knew I could either be working with him or be his friend, but not both'

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Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk sheds light on the world's richest person's early life.

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Elon Musk really was telling the truth by saying his father Errol never owned an emerald mine, biographer says

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Errol Musk is Elon Musk's father.

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Bill Gates thought Elon Musk became 'super mean' after finding out Gates shorted Tesla stock

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Bill Gates thought Elon Musk became 'super mean' after finding out Gates shorted Tesla stock

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Grimes is squashing her beef with Shivon Zilis, saying communication about Elon Musk's secret twins 'wasn't handled super well' in the past

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Grimes (left) and Shivon Zilis (right).

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