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Chloe Berger

How Musk and Bezos first met, with an insulted Elon inviting himself to tour Blue Origin

(Credit: Bezos: Michael M. Santiago—Getty Images; Musk: Nathan Laine—Getty Images)

Billionaire CEOs are like betta fish. Put them in the same tank and they might get territorial (or write passive-aggressive tweets). At least, that seems to be the case for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who find themselves in an ongoing feud over the race to space.

The two, who have held rotating titles as the richest man in the world (that currently goes to Musk), started off on shaky grounds from the very first day they met, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk, titled simply Elon Musk. It seems as if the two high-powered individuals find fault in the other’s similar traits.

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