On Friday, June 26th, 2020, Elon Musk Trolled Jeff Bezos for the second time, calling the Amazon founder a Copy-Cat via a tweet.
The tweet was in response to a post by Financial Times, about Amazon’s plans acquire self-driving start-up Zoox for over $1.2bn. Amazon acquiring Zoox will mark the ecommerce group’s biggest investment into the autonomous vehicle sector.
Elon Musk reacted to this as his company Tesla is working on a similar project. Tesla claims to have the best autonomous driving chip in the world, seven times more powerful than its rivals and with a second generation already underway.
Musk tweeted under Financial Times post about the acquisition of Zoox, tagging Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and stating that “@JeffBezos is a copy Cat haha”
Check out the tweet below;
The deal would be Amazon’s second-biggest acquisition since the 2009 purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos for $1.2bn