- There is no lost love between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
- The billionaire tech CEOs – who run Tesla and SpaceX, and Facebook, respectively – have been rivals since at least 2016, when a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite.
- Since then, they have meddled in everything from artificial intelligence to Facebook’s data collection practices.
- More recently, Musk linked Facebook to the violent uprising in Washington, DC, describing it as a “domino effect”.
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For more than four years, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg clashed for everything from artificial intelligence to rockets.
The two tycoons – who run Tesla and SpaceX and Facebook, respectively – did not exactly keep their rivalry secret. When the explosion of a SpaceX rocket destroyed a Facebook satellite in 2016, Zuckerberg issued a heated statement saying he was “deeply disappointed” by the failure of SpaceX. And when Facebook became involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Musk publicly deleted his company’s Facebook pages, tweeting that the company gives him “nervousness”.
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The two billionaires are among the wealthiest people on the planet, putting them in an elite circle, even by Silicon Valley standards. Despite the fact that both are involved with artificial intelligence and their companies have partnered in the past, it seems that there is no love between Musk and Zuckerberg.
This is where their rivalry started and everything that has happened since.