It looks like Indian-American billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla especially jumped on his social media timeline today to take a swipe at fellow billionaire Elon Musk. Dragging out the on-and-off feud between the tech moguls, the South Asian-origin venture capitalist fumed at a post the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had shared on X months ago.

While the US grapples with an already politically sensitive time due to the Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, many people continue to argue against the far-right’s agenda by describing America as a “nation of immigrants.” A similar issue fuelled Khosla’s latest dig at Musk on X.

Vinod Khosla vs Elon Musk continues

“@elonmusk doesn’t want MAGA,” the Indian-American billionaire wrote on X, alluding to the ‘Make America Great Again’ popularised by Donald Trump and vehemently cited by the far-right, often to push the anti-immigration agenda. Continuing his rant against Musk, Vinod Khosla said, “He wants WAGA or “white America great again” as a racism is great and desirable” paradigm.”

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Using the opportunity to his advantage, the founder of Khosla Ventures also sent a direct message to “all non-whites” and “all decent whites” professionally attached to all Elon Musk-led companies like Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), urging them to quit and “join our portfolio.” Plugging an unconventional hiring call, the Silicon Valley titan added, “Email us your linkedin!”

Why did Vinod Khosla target Elon Musk on X?

This time, the Indian-American billionaire chose to spar with Musk over a tweet he had posted in September 2025. “White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population,” the richest man in the world wrote in response to another post saying, “In 1900 white population of world was 36%, today it is 8%.”

For years, Musk has been avidly vocal about the “population collapse” issue tied to decreasing birth rates. Even earlier this month, he reiterated online, “an immediate increase in the birth rate is needed.” He’d once even posted a striking map of fertility data from across the world.

Last year, a report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN agency for reproductive rights declared that world fertility rates were in “unprecedented decline.” As per UNFPA’s survey about the fertility intentions of 14,000 people in 14 countries (including India and the US), one in five said they haven’t had or expect they won’t have their desired number of children.

“Most people surveyed want two or more children. Fertility rates are falling in large part because many feel unable to create the families they want. And that is the real crisis,” said Dr Natalia Kanem, head of UNFPA, as per the BBC.

While Musk’s concerns have already been validated by official sources, his mention of “white people” becoming a “diminishing minority” was not necessarily viewed positively by all. Those on the far-right, like influencer Laura Loomer, dropped comments like “The Great Replacement is real” at the time.

However, others couldn’t help but call out Musk for “skin complexion” being an “existential issue” for him, especially at a time when Trump’s immigration crackdown has even fuelled arguments against not just undocumented migrants but also legal pathways to immigrations.

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Not the first time Vinod Khosla, Elon Musk have feuded

Back in September 2024, the tech billionaire duo particularly became the focus of controversial headlines when Musk shared a seemingly altered image of a sign on a beach that read “No plebs allowed. Property of Vinod Khosla.”

The post alluded to a years-long legal battle Khosla had undertaken to block the use of his private property to access the public Martins Beach. The piece of land Khosla bought in 2008 had previously served as a paid parking lot for Martins Beach south of San Francisco.

After Musk’s post, Khosla hit out against him, demanding an apology for “spreading falsehoods” and causing ” a lot of damage with your irresponsible behaviour.” The Indian American insisted that he never put up such a sign.

The billionaires have previously sparred over OpenAI, Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants and much more.

After former US President Joe Biden dropped out of his re-election bid in 2024, Musk pushed Khosla to endorse the Trump ticket. However, the Khosla Ventures founder replied, “hard for me to support someone with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans women, hates immigrants like me.”