- A rare photo surfaced of a meeting between
Elon Musk andJeff Bezos in 2004. - The meal happened before the onset of a rivalry between the moguls.
- Musk responded to the photo by tweeting, "Wow, hard to believe that was 17 years ago!"
A rare photo has surfaced of a fateful meeting between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk 17 years ago.
The photo, tweeted earlier this month by Trung Phan, a writer for the business newsletter The Hustle, shows Musk and Bezos smiling and sitting in a restaurant. Phan said it was taken in 2004, just as Musk's and Bezos'
-Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) March 1, 2021
Musk responded to the photo on Saturday by tweeting, "Wow, hard to believe that was 17 years ago!"
The 2004 meeting is widely believed to be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry between the moguls and their space companies,
While Bezos hasn't publicly discussed the meal, Musk described their meeting to Christian Davenport for his book "The Space Barons." Musk said that Bezos was "barking up the wrong tree" about
"I actually did my best to give good advice, which he largely ignored," Musk said.
Bezos has made veiled critiques of Musk's goal of sending humans to Mars, while Musk has taken jabs at some of
For the past several months, Bezos and Musk have also been jockeying for the title of the richest person in the world. Bezos is in the No. 1 spot with a fortune of $181 billion, while Musk, with a net worth of about $170 billion, is No. 2.