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Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos as he widens lead as world’s richest person

  • Elon Musk tweets silver medal emoji after wealth gap between him and Jeff Bezos increased last week
  • Jab escalates public spat between the two billionaires, who are both trying to revolutionise the space industry

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Elon Musk is the richest person on Earth. File photo; TNS

The rift between the two of the richest men on Earth continues to grow after SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk again took to Twitter and remind Jeff Bezos that the gap between the two of them is growing.

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Musk's wealth increased rapidly over the last few days, after a secondary sale by investors valued SpaceX at more than US$100 billion. This further increased Elon Musk's total wealth by US$10.6 billion US$222 billion.

Bezos, the former founder and CEO of Amazon sits in second place with US191.6 billion.

Last Sunday, Bezos tweeted a photo of a front page of Barron's newspaper from 1999 that dubbed Amazon as “Amazon.bomb” shadowing that the business model is going to be a complete failure. Bezos sent out the tweet along with an inspirational message.

However, Musk replied to the tweet with a silver medal emoji reminding Bezos of his second place in the current list of the richest.

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