- Elon Musk seems to be making another slap in the face to one of his biggest competitors, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
- “Greet your puppet master,” Musk told The Washington Post.
- The remark appears to be in reference to Bezos’ ownership of The Post, which Trump also criticized.
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It turns out that the Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos are fighting the battle that it’s still raging.
The two technologists have clipped the title of richest person in the world over the past few weeks, but they also have a years-long feud that began over their competitive ambitions in space. Musk does not seem to have forgotten, as evidenced by a recent excavation in Bezos.
The Washington Post’s Faiz Siddiqui on Tuesday published a report on how the demands on Musk’s time – including his itinerary, his personal life and focus on SpaceX, the rocket company he also runs – are beginning to affect Tesla, leading to what some critics regard. as missteps in his management of the business.
While the report was being reported, which according to The Post was interviews with a dozen current and former Tesla employees, investors and analysts, the publication came to Musk by email and received a brief response in return.
“Greet your puppet master,” Musk said in response to The Post’s request for comment.
The remark appears to be referring to Bezos’ ownership of The Post – he bought the newspaper in 2013 for $ 250 million in cash. Both and The Post have repeatedly said that Amazon’s CEO has no influence on The Post’s editorial decisions.
But that has not stopped critics from bringing together the billionaire technology founder and the nearly 150-year-old publication, who is the oldest president, Donald Trump. Trump made Bezos and The Post a regular target during his administration, tweeting that the newspaper was spreading ‘fake news’ and serving as Amazon’s ‘main lobbyist’.
With this latest outbreak, Musk is adding oil to a rivalry with Bezos that has been going on for at least 2004. Musk has criticized Bezos and its rocket company, Blue Origin, for the past fifteen years, including calling Bezos a copywriter. about some of its businesses, which Amazon describes as a monopoly, and apparently digging up a bit about Bezos’ age.
Bezos, in turn, has repeatedly criticized SpaceX and Musk’s main goal, which is to send humans to Mars – Bezos described the idea as ‘unmotivated’.
“Go live for a year on top of Mount Everest and see if you like it, because it’s a garden paradise compared to Mars,” Bezos said in 2019.