AmazonFounder Jeff Bezos was on Twitter on MondayI shared an article about Amazon.Com Inc more than 20 years ago, when Amazon.Com Inc went public just two years ago, and the world was on the eve of the bursting of the Internet bubble.
This article, published in May 1999, believes that because it comes from Walmart IncWith the increasingly fierce competition with direct distributors and other companies, investors are competing for profits, Amazon.Com Inc stock will be in trouble. In the two years since the publication of this article, Amazon.Com Inc's share price has fallen 71 per cent.
More than 20 years have passed in a twinkling of an eye. After the Internet bubble burst, many companies closed down, but Amazon.Com Inc survived tenaciously and grew day by day.
"listen and be open, but don't let anyone tell you who you are," Bezos tweeted on Monday. There are many stories that tell people that we will fail, and this is just one of them. Today, Amazon.Com Inc is one of the most successful companies in the world and has completely changed two completely different industries. "
The post has become one of Bezos's most popular posts in recent weeks, attracting thousands of retweets and likes and sparking discussion about opponents of the company.
TeslaCEO Elon Musk also responded to the message with a silver emoji, possibly reminding Bezos that the wealth gap between him and Musk is widening.
With the recent rise in Tesla, Inc. 's share price, Musk once again surpassed Bezos to become the world's richest man, according to the Forbes real-time rich list at the end of last month. Musk wrote to Forbes at the time, "I'm going to give a huge statue of the number 2 to Jeffrey B. and a silver medal."
On Friday, a deal between Musk's space exploration technology company (SpaceX) and investors valued the company at more than $100 billion, more than four times that of Bezos's Blue Origin.
This increased Musk's worth by about $9 billion. Musk is currently worth $222 billion, $31.2 billion more than Bezos's $190.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.