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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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3 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Jeff Bezos has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingGetting to orbit was solved in the 1950s and 60s, and the only interesting problem left in spaceflight is making access to orbit dramatically cheaper.

    Their wordsThe only interesting problem is dramatically reducing the cost of access to orbit, which is, if you can do that, you open up a bunch of new endeavors that lots of start-up companies everybody else can do. One of our missions is to be part of this industry and lower the cost to orbit, so that there can be a renaissance, a golden age of people doing all kinds of interesting things in space.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingSpace will only be unlocked when a valuable space company can be started in a dorm room, and that is the test of whether enough heavy infrastructure exists.

    infrastructure

    Their wordsThat will be a marker of success when you can have a really valuable space company started in a dorm room, then we know that we've built enough infrastructure so that ingenuity and imagination can really be unleashed.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingThe things worth building a business around are the ones that will not have changed in ten years, and those are identifiable in advance.

    Their wordsAnd I would encourage anybody, if anybody listening to this is an entrepreneur, has a small business, whatever, think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years. And those are probably the big things.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 16th of 20 in this recording