Earlier this week, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos acquired right into a public disagreement on X, the platform Musk owns, about feedback Bezos allegedly mentioned 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 occasions (in accordance with X) on the time of writing.
Bezos replied to the put up, stating “Nope. 100% not true” to which Musk responded, “Properly, 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 folks on the earth, with a mixed internet price 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 highest 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). Photograph by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI,MANDEL NGAN/AFP through Getty Photographs
Musk leads area exploration firm SpaceX and Bezos is the pinnacle 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 known as him a copycat the identical 12 months for his plans for web satellites.
Musk mentioned in a 2021 interview with the Monetary Instances that Bezos “does take himself a bit too critically” and “doesn’t appear to be prepared to spend psychological vitality moving into the small print of engineering.”
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Musk additionally publicly criticized Bezos’ mission “The Rings of Energy,” a Lord of the Rings adaptation launched in 2022, tweeting “Tolkien is popping in his grave.”
Whereas the ability dynamics between Musk and Bezos could shift after Trump’s win, this most up-to-date change proves that the dynamics between the 2 richest folks on the earth 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.