Jeff Bezos just took a shot at Elon Musk on Twitter. It did not go well
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INTRO: Taking shots is pretty common among competitors. The thing is, it doesn't always work out the way you expect. Sometimes it doesn't go well at all, which can lead to a pretty painful lesson.
On Monday, after it was announced that Twitter had accepted Musk's offer to take the company private, Bezos retweeted a reporter for
The New York Times, asking whether Musk's acquisition of Twitter meant that China would be gaining more influence over what he called "the town square."
The insinuation was that Musk was, at least in part, beholden to China because of Tesla's business there. Which, to be fair, isn't an entirely unreasonable point. China is extremely important to Tesla, with the company building one of its Gigafactories in Shanghai. It's also the source of many of the important components Tesla needs to build its vehicles.
The problem is that it's not really a point people care to hear from Bezos. Almost immediately, the tweet was met with replies pointing out the influence China has over Amazon.
I scrolled through a lot of the more than 9,000 replies to Bezos's tweet. The overwhelming majority were similar to that one--pointing out that Amazon's own record on China doesn't exactly give Bezos the high ground.
Take the products you can buy on Amazon, for example. I have no idea what percentage of products made on Amazon.com are made in China, but a quick search for "iPhone charger" revealed page after page of results... (
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