Elon Musk criticizes Jeff Bezos for being playful

“Do you think Jeff Bezos is a good person?”, Alec account asked Elon Musk on Twitter.

“He’s fine, I think. He seems to be spending a lot of time in the hot tub these days,” replied the richest man in the world.

Musk then even gave advice to someone second only to him in terms of wealth: “If he wants to get into orbit, he should party less and work more.”

Follow Moneycontrol, Musk’s answer alludes to the two billionaires’ spaceflight and Bezos’ recent failure. On May 20, Blue Origin – Bezos’ aerospace company – had to postpone its fifth flight into space due to some problems related to the spacecraft. The company can’t even come up with a schedule for the next flight yet.

Controversy over the space ambitions of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has dragged on for 15 years, since the two co-founded related rival companies. Bezos owns Blue Origin with the ambition to return humans to the Moon, while Musk wants SpaceX to help turn Mars into a habitable planet.

Dissent between the two billionaires dates back to 2004 when the two met to discuss their ambitions for reusable rockets. “I really tried my best to give helpful advice, but he just ignored it,” Musk said after the meeting, as described in the book. The Space Barons by Christian Davenport. The last time the two were on the same page was in April when Musk wanted to turn Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into a home for the homeless, while Bezos wanted to apply this to part of his Amazon headquarters.

According to the early April announcement of Facebook, Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with a fortune of $219 billion, up from $151 billion last year. With a fortune of $171 billion, down from $177 billion in 2021, Jeff Bezos was surpassed by Musk himself and ranked second only on the list.