Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos ‘copy cat’ after Amazon acquires Zoox

Team Udayavani, Jun 28, 2020, 10:56 AM IST

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos a copycat after the e-commerce giant announced to purchase self-driving car company Zoox pegged at over $1 billion.

Elon Musk, on Friday, tweeted saying, “@JeffBezos is a copy[cat] haha”

.@JeffBezos is a copy ? haha https://t.co/plR7uupqBG

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2020

Amazon on Friday, said that it is buying self-driving technology company Zoox, which is developing an autonomous vehicle for a ride-hailing service that people would request on their phones.

It is said that Zoox settled a lawsuit with Tesla in April after admitting that some new employees it hired from Tesla possessed documents when they joined Zoox. Tesla had filed a lawsuit in March last year against four former employees and Zoox.

Earlier, Elon Musk has slammed Blue Origin and Amazon Founder Bezos, saying it is time to break up the e-commerce giant and end its monopoly.

Elon tweeted, “This is insane @JeffBezos. Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!”

Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2020