Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a brief but strong comment to the Washington Post this week when the newspaper released a written story about him.
“Give my regards to your puppet master,” Musk responded to the newspaper’s request for his story “Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced the celebrity. Can Tesla run on autopilot?”
Musk almost certainly referred to Jeff Bezos, owner of the Post.
There have been reports of a rivalry between the two for years, often because of their ambitions in space: Musk owns the company SpaceX and Bezos owns Blue Origin.
In 2019, Bezos subtly scoffed at Musk’s plans to send people to Mars.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the inauguration of the new Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California, on March 14, 2019. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should be FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images)
“My friends who want to move to Mars, I say, do me a favor and go live on top of Mount Everest for a year first, and see if you like it, because it is a heavenly garden compared to Mars,” he said. .
The two billionaires also competed for the spot as the richest man in the world, with Bezos overtaking Musk again last week after Musk’s wealth fell $ 15 million when he tweeted that Bitcoin prices “look high”.
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The Post article reported on Tesla’s “questionable business moves” and said that critics said his personal agenda and “apparent personality cult that developed around him, are starting to show up at the automaker he runs.”
Author Faiz Siddiqui said the story was written after interviews with a dozen “current and former Tesla employees, investors and analysts”.
The Post said Bezos has no editorial influence on the newspaper and wrote many stories putting the company in a negative light, including one last week with the headline “New York sues Amazon for ‘blatant disregard’ of deposit health standards” .
Former President Trump also criticized Bezos and the newspaper, calling him “Amazon’s chief strategist” and “fake news”.
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The Washington Post and Tesla did not immediately respond to Fox News’s requests for comment after hours.