Recently, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, called out to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that if he wants to gain an advantage in the space race, he needs to spend more time on his space company Blue Origin and spend less time soaking in hot baths.
According to the data, Musk and Bezos are the two richest people in the world. According to Forbes real-time data, Musk is currently worth about $252 billion, while Bezos is worth $195 billion.
Bezos in 2018-2020, three consecutive years of the world's richest man, and in 2021 by Musk replaced, and the two also have a common hobby is interested in the field of space, so they began to game, the grudge between the two has set off a number of scolding wars, and now once again rushed to the hot search, but also by the outside netizens ridiculed "the richest man on the surface of the tear".
The US media has reported the details of the "open struggle" between the two. Bezos often dug into spaceX's corners, hiring high-paying talent to jump from Musk's company. Musk, on the other hand, teases Bezos for not being able to compare to himself. In October, he retweeted Bezos's tweet with a "silver" emoji. This obviously means that Bezos can only be second in front of him.
At present, after Bezos resigned as CEO of Amazon, he has been devoting his energy to blue origin, which he founded, and is bent on going to space. In the field of space, there has also been a gap between the two sides. In April, Blue Origin and SpaceX simultaneously participated in NASA's bid for an astronaut landing contract. The two companies were expected to win the bid, but due to a shortage of funds, the final bid was SpaceX, and NASA decided to award the $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX.
It is understood that the project is to develop the Starship program and help build a manned landing system for the Artemis lunar landing project in the United States. Under its Artemis program, NASA hopes to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. Unsatisfied, Blue Origin appealed in early August to protest the outcome.
In addition, Bezos also regularly sues Musk's companies, on average once every 16 days, to which Musk said: "Suing SpaceX has become his (Bezos)'s full-time job after retirement." ”
SpaceX said Amazon is more focused on slowing down SpaceX than improving its own satellite programs, noting that amazon needs to address issues related to orbital debris and radio frequency interference before deploying its own satellites. Musk has also admitted that Bezos has talent in engineering, but its focus does not seem to be right, so it has been aimed at SpaceX. Some outsiders also said that Musk has been unique in the space field for a long time, and now he is a bit lonely and defeated.