Elon Musk is back on top of the ranking of the richest men in the world, according to Forbes data. And he didn’t miss an opportunity to provoke Jeff Bezos, the billionaire he overtook.
“I will send him a statue in the shape of the number 2 along with a silver medal,” Musk wrote to Forbes in response to an e-mail asking for a comment on the primacy of the special ranking.
Elon Musk had already occupied, in the past, the highest position among the billionaires on the planet. For the first time, however, Msuk’s assets exceed $ 200 billion: he is the third person to do it since the Forbes list has existed.
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The first to reach 200 billion was Jeff Bezos, in August 2020. Recently, Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, also succeeded for a short time.
There’s no good blood between Musk and Bezos lately: their aerospace companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin, compete for both future space tourists and NASA contracts. One of these, signed by Space X for the construction of the lander that will bring men back to the moon, was litigated by Bezos and his Blue Origin.
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With a tweet recently, Elon Musk wrote ironically that “Bezos has withdrawn (from Amazon, ed) to start a full-time job involving lawsuits against SpaceX“.
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