Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have a long history of trolling each other, particularly about the space business. According to an investor lawsuit filed a few months ago, the billionaire rivalry played a role in Amazon not choosing Musk’s SpaceX to launch satellites for its Project Kuiper, which will compete against the Starlink broadband internet service provided by SpaceX.
The lawsuit claimed that Amazon leadership “excluded the most obvious and affordable launch provider, SpaceX, from its procurement process because of Bezos’ personal rivalry with Musk,” thereby breaching “basic fiduciary responsibilities.” Amazon said the lawsuit’s claims were “completely without merit.”
