Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla has urged staff of Elon Musk-led firms to resign, escalating a pointy public dispute over race, politics and tradition in Silicon Valley.

Khosla’s feedback adopted remarks by Musk on X stating that white persons are changing into a “quickly diminishing minority” globally, a put up that drew widespread debate on-line.

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

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2025

In a viral response on X (previously Twitter), Khosla accused Musk of selling a racially exclusionary ideology and framed it as a distortion of US President Donald Trump’s “Make America Nice Once more” motion.

“@.elonmusk doesn’t need MAGA, he desires WAGA — ‘white America nice once more,’” Khosla wrote, describing it as a paradigm during which racism is portrayed as “nice and fascinating.”

He went on to name on “all non-whites… and all respectable whites” working at Tesla, SpaceX and X to stop their jobs and ship their LinkedIn profiles to Khosla Ventures.

.@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 many others and all respectable whites ought to stop and be part of our portfolio. Electronic mail us your linkedin! https://t.co/NmbM19AnnC

— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) January 27, 2026

Musk responded forcefully, dismissing Khosla’s remarks and attacking him personally. In reply to his put up, Musk known as Khosla “pompous” and rejected allegations of racism, noting that his associate, Shivon Zilis, is half Indian and that his eldest son together with her is known as in honor of Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

“Vinod, you’re not simply such a pompous asshole that you just tried to cease the general public from utilizing a public seashore close to your own home, you’ve additionally gone full retard. My associate, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son together with her is known as in honor of the good Indian physicist Chandrasekhar,”  Musk replied.

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

My associate, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son together with her is known as in honor of the good Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2026