The Comparison of Business Moguls and CEOs (The Straight Differences between Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla's Elon musk)
Two business leaders have been on a competing business spree in the last few years, I would have said three but Richard Branson seem to not be at the same speed as this two Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. This two people have a lot of things in common like they are both billionaires and in the last two years they have been on the radar as people have been talking about them, and they own the two most innovative tech companies Tesla and Amazon and to back it up they are both founders of new companies that want to explore the space riches. But in all this what set this business men apart?
Studying the life and character of businessmen is business to a lot of people and it is important to startup business owners, as looking into their lives both personally and in business give them an insight to how they will live their lives and make decisions. Apart from the fact that the two individuals have a lot of things in common, they have so many things apart starting with nationality as one has one nationality and the other has 3 nationalities. Jeff is an American while Elon Musk is from Pretoria in South Africa but became a Canadian citizen at 17, and now is an American citizen as he has lived so long in America and still living there (he became a citizen in 2002).
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Elon Musk dropped out of a PhD course after two days and started business immediately, so he did not miss the internet boom. He was the co-founder of a software company with his brother while Jeff Bezos worked in the tech and finance industry for 9 years before he then resigned to start Amazon.
The both of them are CEOs but one founded the company while the other didn’t. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage so he could give access to people to get books online and delivered to their homes while he got people to fund his business, Jeff Bezos did about sixty meetings with investors so as to get funding. While Elon Musk came into Tesla 1 year after it was created, he was the sole person who funded 98% of the company’s finances from the money he got selling his company. Currently, Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is a lot bigger than Elon Musk’s tesla with Musk’s company worth $135 billion while the online retail giant Amazon is worth over $1 trillion.
They both own space companies but have different reasons to go to space, one wants to have his own colony while the other wants to build a space station on the moon and colonize the space entirely. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin wants to set up a space station on the moon so he can explore the space better abd start creating more space stations in space while Elon spaceX wants to set up a colony on mars and have about 1 million people living there (you could call it the Elon Nation). In the space exploration race, Elon Musk has made more progress compared to Amazon.
They both are business moguls and entrepreneur but one is more idealistically driven than the other. I guess you will say Jeff Bezos is more idealistically driven since he has a company 7 times worth more than Elon musk but I will tell you the truth that it is not true. Although Amazon is a tech Giant but Jeff is just a business man concerned about customers and market shares, but Elon is most concerned with solving most of humanity problem and do not care about helping his competitors provided they have the same goal.
Although Elon Musk uses AI, he is very wary about the future of it. It is very funny to see that Elon who founded open AI is very wary about what will happen if they get very intelligent but Jeff is very enthusiastic about it with Alexa. Jeff is very much passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence and amazon uses machine learning to recommend products to customers.
Jeff Bezos is a business man so he invest more in different sectors compared to Elon Musk. Amazon’s Jeff will invest in stock market and put in a lot money to invest in startups for example, Airbnb and Uber, while Musk will not invest in a business he is not fully involved in and is not concerned with investing in the stock market. I guess that is a lot to proof that Jeff is a business man and why he has been bagging the richest person in the universe since 2017.
One of the major things for business owners and entrepreneur is giving back to the community, although a lot do it for tax cut and other benefits. In this case, Elon Musk gives more to charity compared to Jeff Bezos. Jeff is the only top 5 richest billionaire in the US who haven’t signed the Bill and Melinda Gates giving pledge.
Elon and Jeff do not agree on a lot of things especially about space. Elon Musk has accused Jeff Bezos of copying everything he is doing while Jeff has mocked Elon for picking a space journey is almost impossible.
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Thanks for this refreshing read @gbenga
I've never heard about CEO behind Amazon. He surely isn't as "public" as Elon Musk. Or at least that's just my impression.
I would definetly like to see comparison between Elon Musk vs Steve Jobs. Or maybe Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs :))
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That's quite strange but Bezos is a good business person with great business model.
I will surely be giving one of the following comparisons.
I guess Jeff Bezos wealth is based on serial involvement in so many business. Amazon sales alone in the US isn't enough to make a man the world richest with $150 Billion.
His business chain goes as far as China, the US and the UK.
They are both doing things right but currently Amazon's Boss is the richest while Bezos is a man for the future.
Let's do Bill gates and Warren Buffett.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet! Those two are good friends and business partners. You will get that comparison for sure.
Two greats that will continue to be great, but do not compete with each other, and despite that many can perceive that between them they are at war.
They are two greats who do not compete in terms of their initial business but in AI and Space, they are really competitive.
Really thoughtful of you to have put this together, they both appear interesting to me but I like the idea of Elon Musk the more even if Jeff is also doing well.
Thanks for the comment, they are both interesting set of people.
SpaceX and Blue Origin, one of the biggest competitors in the commercial space industry. I really like this post.
Btw, I like the guy Musk. He really thinks out of the box.
The two CEOs are dynamic, i must say. I like both of them and they both make differences in different fields.