Earlier this week, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos received right into a public disagreement on X, the platform Musk owns, about feedback Bezos allegedly stated about President-elect Donald Trump. Although Bezos denies making the remarks.
“Simply realized tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everybody that @realDonaldTrump would lose for certain, so they need to promote all their Tesla and SpaceX inventory,” Musk wrote on Thursday in a put up considered greater than 44 million instances (in accordance with X) on the time of writing.
Bezos replied to the post, stating “Nope. 100% not true” to which Musk responded, “Nicely, then, I stand corrected.”
Nope. 100% not true.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 21, 2024
Musk and Bezos are two of probably the most highly effective individuals on the earth, with a combined net worth of over half a trillion {dollars}. Bezos is the second-richest individual on the earth with a internet price of $226 billion whereas Musk takes the top spot with a internet price of $331 billion.
However that hasn’t stopped the 2 tech titans from squabbling it out on social media.
Musk (left) and Bezos (proper). Picture by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI,MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
Musk leads area exploration firm SpaceX and Bezos is the top of rival agency Blue Origin. Since 2004, the 2 corporations have gotten into patent battles, spats over talent, and arguments over which one completed space feats first.
For instance, Bezos shaded Musk’s ambition to colonize Mars in a non-public lecture in 2019, whereas Musk referred to as him a copycat the identical 12 months for his plans for web satellites.
Musk stated in a 2021 interview with the Monetary Occasions that Bezos “does take himself a bit too significantly” and “doesn’t appear to be prepared to spend psychological power entering into the small print of engineering.”
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Musk additionally publicly criticized Bezos’ venture “The Rings of Energy,” a Lord of the Rings adaptation launched in 2022, tweeting “Tolkien is popping in his grave.”
Whereas the facility dynamics between Musk and Bezos might shift after Trump’s win, this most up-to-date alternate proves that the dynamics between the 2 richest individuals on the earth stay contentious.
Trump lately appointed Musk a co-lead of the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity to assist downsize the U.S. authorities.
