Tesla Inc.’s co-founder responded to a tweet from Bezos early Monday with a silver medal emoji right after the gap amongst the world’s two richest folks enhanced last week by means of the surging valuation of Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX. His net worth is now $222 billion, whilst Amazon.com Inc.’s Bezos is at $190.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The jab escalates the public spat amongst the two billionaires, who are each attempting to revolutionize the space market.
Bezos’s Blue Origin is difficult a U.S. government contract with SpaceX to create technologies to land folks on the moon once again, whilst Musk has previously taken to Twitter to get in touch with Amazon’s founder a “copy cat” for his e-commerce firm’s space-focused ventures. In a current filing with U.S. regulators, Amazon’s satellite subsidiary also accused Musk and his providers of flouting regulations with a common attitude that “rules are for other people.”
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2021
In his tweet late Sunday, Bezos posted an image of a 1999 write-up from Barron’s that criticized Amazon and described it as one of quite a few stories that predicted his company’s demise: “Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are. This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail. Today, Amazon is one of the world’s most successful companies and has revolutionized two entirely different industries.”
Musk, 50, added about $9 billion to his fortune Friday right after an agreement with investors valued SpaceX in excess of $one hundred billion, more than quadruple the size of Blue Origin, according to Bloomberg’s wealth index.
Musk nevertheless derives about 3-quarters of his wealth from Tesla, which he co-founded in 2003 right after creating a fortune from the sale of e-commerce internet site PayPal to eBay Inc. for $1.5 billion.
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