Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos, two interesting names, rivals who often throw criticism at each other. The question is, who is your hero? Or you can't choose between the two?
Naturally, both of them are successful, and uniquely, both of them have a passion for space, so they built a space company. Let's take a closer look at the comparison of the two.
1. Wealth
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are chasing each other. Musk has overtaken the first position as the world's richest person several times.
From Forbes real-time figures when this news was written, Saturday (11/9/2021), Jeff Bezos has a net worth of USD 202.9 billion while Elon Musk has USD 194.8 billion. It should be noted, Bezos divorced his wife so that his wealth automatically decreases because of the distribution of assets like this -- but still, the money is not rosy.
2. Education
Jeff Bezos and Musk are very smart. We know that. However, some may not know about their educational background.
Jeff Bezos is known to be a graduate of engineering and computer science at Princeton University in 1986 with a summa cum laude degree. Elon Musk graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania pursuing a second bachelor's degree in physics. After leaving Penn, Musk attended Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics.
3. Owned company
Elon Musk is the founder and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, Zip2, OpenAI, X.com. He has a foundation called the Musk Foundation.
While Jeff Bezos is the boss of Blue Origins, the founder of Amazon is also Bezos Expeditions, and owns the Bezos Earth Fund.
4. Personal life
Elon Musk has six children from his previous marriage to Justine Wilson. Nevada Alexander Musk, Xavier Musk, Kai Musk, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk, Saxon Musk. Recently, he had a child named X A-Xii from his love affair with singer Grimes.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos also failed in his marriage to MacKenzie Scott. Now he has partner Lauren Sánchez whom he allegedly dated before his divorce from MacKenzie was legalized by the courts.
5. Aphorisms from each
Quotes from Jeff Bezos:
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Quotes from Elon Musk:
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.
