Musk bypassed Bezos in the list of the richest people in the world and made a tough joke on his rival

The head of Space X and Tesla Elon Musk bypassed Jeff Bezos in the list of the richest people in the world and sent a giant statue with the number 2 and a silver medal to the founder of Amazon. Tjournal.

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On September 28, Elon Musk took first place in the Forbes ranking of the richest people in the world, beating Jeff Bezos. He became the third person whose fortune ever reached $ 200 billion.

Commenting on this, Musk told Forbes that he sent the head of Amazon a giant statue with number 2 and a silver medal. Bezos, who is now in second place in the ranking, has not yet announced the receipt of the package.

On September 28, Musk’s fortune was $200,7 billion, Bezos’s was $192,5 billion.

Bezos was the first person to have a fortune of $ 2020 billion in August 200. The second person to overcome this mark was the head of the French conglomerate of luxury brands LVMH Bernard Arnault.

Musk was already ahead of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the Forbes rankings in January 2021. Then it happened against the backdrop of a strong rise in the price of Tesla shares.

Space wars of the rich

The two richest people on the planet have had a hidden (and sometimes quite public) struggle for space for twenty years. Both have almost unlimited billions and companies wishing to develop space tourism, send cargo into orbit, reduce the cost of flights and gradually colonize other planets, says Habr.

Both billionaires have dreamed of space since childhood. They grew up reading books by Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov, science fiction films (Star Wars), and TV shows like Star Trek. Bezos even has a cameo role in the latter. And he personally, by a strong-willed decision, saved Expansion two years ago by allowing her to move to Amazon Video. Musk, as well as he can, spreads ideas about space among the people - including his HYIP projects, like sending a car in a rocket to solar orbit.

In life, these two people are waging a “cold war” between themselves. When a BBC journalist asked Musk about Jeff Bezos as his main competitor in 2016, he replied, “Jeff who?” And the head of Amazon, in turn, without naming names, began to regularly criticize the idea of ​​​​the rapid colonization of Mars, saying that he finds this idea “impossible” and “demotivating.”

In May 2019, Amazon announced a plan to launch 3236 satellites to provide Internet coverage of the planet. The company invested more than $ 10 billion in this. The project was named Kuiper Systems. Musk immediately went to troll Jeff Bezos, calling him a copycat. And when Amazon bought self-driving taxi startup Zoox for $ 2020 billion in 1,3, Musk hinted again that he knew who Jeff was cheating from.

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Tech moguls argued for a year and a half over a lucrative contract with the US Air Force. SpaceX is suing a government agency after it signed a $ 2,3 billion contract with Blue Origin to develop a rocket. As a result, a few weeks ago, the contract was officially canceled, and SpaceX again became a partner. Over the past 7 years, SpaceX, together with ULA, received military contracts for $ 18 billion, and they will receive at least $ 1 billion a year. Blue Origin's rocket development will continue to be sponsored by Jeff Bezos out of his own pocket.

In July 2020, Musk again criticized Bezos' space ambitions. In an interview with the New York Times, he hinted that Bezos is too old and his Blue Origin is too slow to ever achieve meaningful results.

“Their rate of progress is too slow, and his remaining years will not be enough. But I'm still glad he does what he does. I know he likes it,” Musk said.

Jeff Bezos' Amazon was among companies that challenged SpaceX's request on the grounds that the orbit change would interfere with other satellites. And it was they who asked to limit SpaceX satellites to an altitude of 580 kilometers.

Musk responded by saying that people would not be better off if Starlink's development slowed down for the sake of Amazon's satellite system, which would be up and running in a few years at best.

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Experts really compare the rivalry between Bezos and Musk to a race between a tortoise and a hare. While Bezos prepares to send humans to the moon again in 2024, Musk plans to begin colonizing Mars later that year.

It would be interesting to see what could be achieved if the opposing sides now combined their financial and technical resources.

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