Elon Musk responded to a tweet fromJeff Bezos aboutAmazon 's success with a silver-medal emoji.- Musk, now the wealthier of the two
billionaires , has said he wants to send Bezos a silver medal.
Elon Musk took a playful dig at Jeff Bezos on Monday: The
Musk's reply harked back to a statement he made last month. After surpassing Bezos as the wealthiest man in the world, Musk told Forbes he'd send Bezos a silver medal and a giant statue of a 2.
Musk's tweet was in response to the Amazon founder's tweet on Sunday about the people who'd doubted the e-commerce giant in its early days.
"Today, Amazon is one of the world's most successful companies and has revolutionized two entirely different industries," Bezos said.
-Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2021
The wealth gap between Bezos and Musk has widened. Last month, Musk became only the third person to have their wealth surpass $200 billion, Forbes said.
Last week, Musk's net worth jumped by about $11 billion, according to Bloomberg, as his space company became the second-most-valuable private company.
Over the past few years, Musk and Bezos have traded the title of wealthiest person back and forth. Musk is valued at about $223 billion, while Bezos' net worth is about $191 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
The two billionaires have long been rivals. Earlier this year, Bezos' space company,
Also in August, Kuiper, an Amazon subsidiary, filed a protest letter with the Federal Communications Commission over SpaceX's plans to expand its Starlink satellite network. In response, Musk said Bezos had "retired to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX."