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Elon Musk has again passed Jeff Bezos to become the richest person.<\/p>\n
He told Forbes he'd mark the occasion by sending Bezos a silver medal and statue of the number two.<\/p>\n
The two have taken swipes at each other for years as part of their rivalry.<\/p>\n
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Elon Musk has taken a jab at Jeff Bezos after becoming the richest person again.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO became the third person to ever be worth $200 billion, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n
In response, Musk said he was sending Bezos a reminder of where they stood on Forbes' billionaires list.<\/p>\n
\"I'm sending a giant statue of the digit '2' to Jeffrey B., along with a silver medal,\" Musk told Forbes in an email.<\/p>\n
Bezos became the first person to reach the $200 billion milestone in August 2020. Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the French luxury conglomerate LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton, briefly hit that mark more recently.<\/p>\n
Musk and the former Amazon CEO have leapfrogged each other for the title of richest person multiple times.<\/p>\n
Musk's comment toward Bezos is the latest in the rivalry between them. Earlier this year, Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, protested NASA's decision to award a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX to land humans on the moon. On Twitter, Musk said: \"Can't get it up (to orbit) lol.\"<\/p>\n
Last month, the Amazon subsidiary Kuiper filed a protest letter with the Federal Communications Commission over SpaceX's plans to expand its Starlink satellite network. In response, Musk tweeted that Bezos had \"retired to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX.\"<\/p>\n
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