Tesla boss Elon Musk and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos just can't help it.
The two rivals keep pulling out their claws.
Now Elon taunts Musk again.
Austin - There can only be one mega billionaire.
That's probably what Tesla boss Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos think.
Again and again the two super-rich pull out swipes at the other.
Now Elon Musk has attacked his rival again, claiming that he is more successful.
Tesla boss Elon Musk ranks number 1 on the billionaire rankings
After Amazon founder Bezos praised his own career on Twitter, the Tesla boss countered on Monday without comment with the picture of a silver medal. Musk is currently the clear number 1 in the billionaires ranking of the financial service Bloomberg with 222 billion US dollars (192 billion euros). Bezos follows with 191 billion US dollars (165 billion euros). For both, wealth is largely based on the value of their stock holdings.
The two billionaires are rivals not only in the rich rankings, but above all in the space business.
Just recently, Bezos' space company Blue Origin had sued Musk's company SpaceX to award the US government contract for a spacecraft to land on the moon.
Musk poked back: "You can't complain to the moon, no matter how good the lawyers are," he blasphemed at a conference in September.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: "Don't let anyone tell you who you are"
Bezos
posted the 1999
front page of US business
paper Barron's
on Twitter
on Sunday evening
, predicting rapid failure for Amazon and Bezos.
“Don't let anyone tell you who you are,” he summed up.
At the same time, the
Washington Post reported
on Monday that a “toxic” corporate culture at Blue Origin had slowed the company's progress and made it difficult to compete with SpaceX.
While that is not flattering for Bezos, the report testifies to the newspaper's editorial independence: It has been owned by the Amazon founder since 2013.
(dpa / ph)
