Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin bromance: the CEOs of Tesla and Twitter are ‘crypto influencers’ who love digital currency – but when did they start stanning each other?

Jun 30 , 2021

Unlike the heads of other tech companies, Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey seem to get on, with both sharing enthusiasm for bitcoin among other things. Photos: @UrvishP167/Twitter, Bloomberg

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook famously have beef, as did Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and late visionary Steve Jobs

Dorsey’s payment processing company Square holds some bitcoin while Musk raised concerns about its climate footprint, investing in dogecoin instead

Both Twitter and Square’s Jack Dorsey, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, have emerged as quasi-bitcoin ambassadors, using their Twitter platforms to spout their devotion to the virtual currency.

And their mutual love for the digital asset has brought them together in a way that has become rare among big tech executives.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook famously have beef stretching back years, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had a long feud with the late Apple visionary Steve Jobs.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks during a South by Southwest 2018 session in Austin. Photo: The Austin American-Statesman/TNS

Musk himself has gotten into tiffs with Gates over Tesla’s electric vehicles and Covid-19 vaccines.

But what Musk and Dorsey have shared online is different. And it looks like their correspondence might culminate in their first public appearance together at a July bitcoin conference.

Here’s how their bromance was born and how it has blossomed.

Dorsey publicly praised Musk in 2016

Tesla head Elon Musk at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin in September 2020. Photo: Getty Images

The Twitter CEO said Musk’s account on the social platform was one of his favourites.

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