Earlier this week, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos acquired 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 positive, so they need to promote all their Tesla and SpaceX inventory,” Musk wrote on Thursday in a publish considered greater than 44 million occasions (in keeping with X) on the time of writing.
Bezos replied to the publish, 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 essentially the most highly effective individuals on this planet, with a mixed web value of over half a trillion {dollars}. Bezos is the second-richest individual on this planet with a web value of $226 billion whereas Musk takes the highest spot with a web value 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 firms have gotten into patent battles, spats over expertise, and arguments over which one achieved area 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 Instances that Bezos “does take himself a bit too severely” and “doesn’t appear to be prepared to spend psychological vitality stepping into the main points of engineering.”
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Musk additionally publicly criticized Bezos’ challenge “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 this planet stay contentious.
Trump just lately appointed Musk a co-lead of the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity to assist downsize the U.S. authorities.
