Musk, the world's richest man, is busy and does not forget to urge the world's second richest man, Bezos, to remember to work hard.
Musk praised his veteran rival Bezos in an interview on Wednesday for "having a pretty good engineering talent," but claimed that Bezos didn't seem willing to spend his energy on engineering details, which make or break. He added that Bezos "really takes himself too seriously"
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Musk also said that if Bezos wants to take an advantage in the billionaire space race, he should spend more time at Blue Origin and less time bathing. Musk said, "In some ways, I'm trying to encourage him to spend more time on Blue Origin so they can make more progress."
According to media reports, Bezos used to spend only one afternoon a week working at Blue Origin. But by September, he had increased his working hours to two afternoons a week. Musk, by contrast, said he spends about 80 to 90 hours a week, seven days a week, running back and forth between Tesla and SpaceX's most critical projects.
As the two richest men in the world - Musk and Bezos have been married for more than ten years, from Earth to space, especially as the competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin rocket companies becomes more and more fierce, their feud has become more and more intense, and the two often hate each other!
In a private speech in 2019, Bezos teased up Musk's idea of colonizing Mars. He said at the time that if "my friend [Musk]" wanted to go to Mars, he should first go to the top of the Himalayas for a year. Because compared with Mars, the conditions on the top of the Himalayan mountains may be as beautiful as the "garden of paradise".
In 2020, Musk retweeted a news story that "Amazon acquires self-driving company Zoox," calling the world's richest man a "copycat."
When Bezos resigned as Amazon's CEO in July, Musk taunted on Twitter, "It turns out that Bezos retired to do a full-time job in a lawsuit against SpaceX."
Earlier, Bezos shared an Amazon success article on Twitter, and Musk replied to a silver emoji marked with the number "2" under the article, taunting: "You are the second"!
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