Elon Musk takes a jibe at rival Bezos as he adds $13 billion to his fortune in one week

Elon Musk has left his counterparts way behind as recent spike in share prices of Tesla crossed $800 mark. As per a report by Forbes, tech mogul ded almost $13 billion to his account in just one week from October 11 to 16 as US stock market witnessed a 4% surge. Needless to say, Musk's fans have gone into a frenzy on Twitter with latest memes and some even revisited tech mogul's viral moments. 

Tesla share prices saw a 7.3% rise

Musk's rise to top, again, is being accredited to massive upsurge in Tesla share prices that have grown nearly 50% since May 19, as per Forbes. As of this week, Tesla's shares hiked 7.3% in just a week ding nearly $13 billion in Musk's net worth. Currently, Musk stands with $214.8 billion in his pockets, although, this should be considered a drop since his net worth h reached a record high of over $230 billion recently. 

Tesla is continuing to deliver its electric vehicles in record numbers as company revealed in early October to have delivered 241,300 cars in second quarter with 56,000 cars in China in September alone. With company achieving such remarkable feats, Tesla w enjoys a market capitalization of a whopping $844 billion, Forbes reported.  

Musk is followed by company Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ($197.8 billion) in second place and Loius Vitton's Bernard Arnault is in third place with a $180.2 billion fortune. Bezos and Musk's feud is kwn to world w and this new feat by latter has incited a meme fest on Twitter and Musk's foray ded fuel to fire. 

Musk-inspired Twitter fest

In a recent tweet that calculated Musk's net worth in terms of Dogecoin, Musk replied that he hopes to have eugh capital to extend life to Mars. This statement of his invited fans to a Twitter banter that saw all kinds of responses. Take a look at some of m. 

Earlier, Musk h triggered ar meme fest when he replied to his rival Jeff Bezos' tweet with a silver medal representing second place when former surpassed him as world's richest man. 

Im: AP/Twitter/@ElonMusk