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Elon Musk responds to a Twitter user saying Jeff Bezos copies every business move the billionaire makes: 'Maybe it's a coincidence'

Sam Tabahriti   

Elon Musk responds to a Twitter user saying Jeff Bezos copies every business move the billionaire makes: 'Maybe it's a coincidence'
  • Elon Musk has stoked his ongoing rivalry with Jeff Bezos after responding sarcastically to a tweet.
  • Musk responded, "maybe it's coincidence" to an entrepreneur suggesting that Bezos copies his ideas.

Elon Musk's beef with Jeff Bezos continues.

Responding to a tweet suggesting the Amazon founder "copies" every business move he makes, $4, $4: "Maybe it's a coincidence."

Musk was responding to a tweet from Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand-based German internet entrepreneur who has been $4 for the better part of two decades for charges relating to his file-sharing site Megaupload.com. Dotcom is prolific on Twitter and regularly interacts with Musk on the platform.

Musk has been $4 for some 15 years and regularly accuses him of being a copycat. The pair have overlapping interests and often trade places as the world's richest person. Musk currently sits at number two, behind the French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault, while Bezos is fifth, per $4.

Musk previously took issue with $4, rivalling SpaceX's Starlink. He commented again in June 2020 when Amazon $4, potentially rivalling Tesla.

More recently, Bezos backed Synchron, a company that focuses on finding ways to enable people to control computers with their minds. Alongside Bill Gates and other investors, the startup received $75 million in funding, part of it from Bezos Expeditions, $4. Musk, meanwhile, is the founder of the neural-interface firm Neuralink, $4 a device that could be embedded in a person's brain to record brain activity and potentially stimulate it.

The two compete most intensely in the commercial-space scene, though it's debatable that Bezos "copied" Musk here. The Amazon founder has long had an interest in space exploration, starting up the spaceflight firm Blue Origin in 2000. Musk founded his own commercial-space firm, SpaceX, two years later.

The two firms have clashed over lawsuits, patents, and rocket launches over the years.

In 2013, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance filed a formal protest after SpaceX tried to get exclusive use of a NASA launchpad. Musk said the move was a "phony blocking tactic" and $4 that Blue Origin had "not yet succeeded in creating a reliable suborbital spacecraft, despite spending over 10 years in development." NASA ultimately sided with SpaceX.

Musk, 51, did appear to compliment his rival in an interview with $4 in 2020 but also implied that Bezos was too old to make progress on space travel, though there's only a seven-year age gap between the two tech moguls.

On Tuesday, insiders told $4 that SpaceX was offering to sell shares at a price that would raise the closely held company's valuation to about $140 billion. Blue Origin remains privately held.

Insider approached Bezos and Musk for comment.



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