Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has pushed again in opposition to Indian-American enterprise capitalist Vinod Khosla following a public trade on X over race and politics, escalating a debate that has drawn widespread consideration throughout Silicon Valley.

The dispute started after Musk final 12 months posted that “white individuals are a quickly diminishing minority of the worldwide inhabitants.”

White individuals are a quickly diminishing minority of world inhabitants https://t.co/34ZWgTQ96q

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2025

Khosla responded by accusing Musk of selling what he described as “WAGA”, brief for “white America nice once more”, as a substitute of the MAGA motion, and alleged that Musk was advancing a racially exclusionary worldview.

He additionally urged non-white workers at Tesla, SpaceX and X, in addition to “all first rate whites,” to resign and be part of firms backed by Khosla Ventures, inviting them to share their LinkedIn profiles.

“.@elonmusk doesn’t need MAGA, he desires WAGA or “white America nice once more” as a racism is nice and fascinating” paradigm. All non-whites in @tesla, @SpaceX @X and so on and all first rate whites ought to give up and be part of our portfolio. E-mail us your linkedin!” Khosla wrote.

.@elonmusk would not need MAGA, he desires WAGA or “white America nice once more” as a racism is nice and fascinating” paradigm. All non-whites in @tesla, @SpaceX@X and so on and all first rate whites ought to give up and be part of our portfolio. E-mail us your linkedin! https://t.co/NmbM19AnnC

— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) January 27, 2026

Musk replied sharply, calling Khosla “pompous,” and rejected accusations of racism.

“Vinod, you’re not simply such a pompous that you simply tried to cease the general public from utilizing a public seaside close to your home, you’ve additionally gone full…,” he wrote.

Musk additionally mentioned his accomplice, Shivon Zilis, is half Indian and famous that his eldest son along with her is known as in honor of famend Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

Vinod, you’re not simply such a pompous asshole that you simply tried to cease the general public from utilizing a public seaside close to your home, you’ve additionally gone full retard.

My accomplice, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son along with her is known as in honor of the nice Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2026

Zilis, a Canadian know-how govt and enterprise capitalist, was born in 1986 to a Punjabi Indian mom and a Canadian father. She has beforehand labored at IBM, Bloomberg Beta and OpenAI, and presently holds a senior function at Neuralink. She and Musk have 4 youngsters collectively.