Musk responded with a single emoji: a silver medal.Since early 2017-when Gates topped the World’s Billionaires list with an $86 billion net worth-Bezos has added more than $110 billion to his fortune on the back of skyrocketing Amazon stock, Arnault has ridden LVMH shares’ 225% climb to more than quadruple his net worth and Musk has had the steepest climb in history, gaining more than $150 billion in four years as Tesla has become the most valuable carmaker on the planet. As shares of Musk’s electric car business, Tesla, skyrocketed, he extended his lead over Bezos as the world's richest man.īezos posted a tweet boasting of Amazon’s ascent in the face of critics “telling us all the ways we were going to fail.” Subsequently, in October, Musk found an opportunity to virally dunk on Bezos again. When the company ultimately filed its lawsuit in August, Musk was clearly irked by Bezos’ apparent hypocrisy the Amazon founder had previously lamented in an interview that space development is slower in the modern era because “losers” sue the federal government. the offers submitted by Blue Origin and Dynetics were significantly higher in price.”īezos then offered to waive $2 billion in fees to NASA, an effort that also fell flat. The GAO’s managing associate general counsel for procurement law said that “SpaceX submitted the lowest-priced proposal with the highest rating, and. Blue Origin and another firm, Dynetics, had sought at least a piece of the award.īlue Origin tried to appeal to the Government Accountability Office, though its complaints were shot down. The billionaires’ space feud traces to last spring, when NASA handed the lunar lander contract to SpaceX.

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