“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this,” Bezos, donning a cowboy hat and blue astronaut coveralls, said at a press briefing on Tuesday after completing the first manned space mission by his Blue Origin rocket-ship firm. “So seriously, for …
Read More »The countdown begins: Richest earthling Jeff Bezos set to make not-so-groundbreaking billionaire space flight
The former Amazon CEO will make an 11-minute excursion to the edge of Earth on board Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the aim of using some of his vast fortune to develop rocket technology for commercial purposes. It won’t be a solo trip, …
Read More »‘Can’t wait to join the club’: Space billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk congratulate Richard Branson on his flight
“Congratulations on the flight,” Bezos wrote on Instagram to Branson and his crew following their successful flight to space and return to Earth on Sunday. Bezos added that he “can’t wait to join the club.” Branson made his way to suborbital space on the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 spaceplane from …
Read More »Billionaires’ space race: Bezos’ Blue Origin dunks on Branson’s Virgin Galactic ahead of crewed flight, saying it doesn’t count
The company of former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted a couple of infographics favorably comparing its primary craft to the one used by Virgin Galactic. “None of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name,” Blue Origin bragged, referring to the fact that its competitor’s flight altitude only constitutes …
Read More »Jeff Bezos’ wealth soars above $211 BILLION after Pentagon calls off Microsoft contract
Amazon shares jumped 4.7% on the announcement, prompting Bezos’ net worth to soar $8.4 billion on Tuesday alone. Bezos, who officially stepped down as Amazon’s CEO earlier this week but kept his 10.3% stake in the company, is now worth $211 billion – a record high since the Bloomberg index …
Read More »Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO after 27 years as Andy Jassy officially takes over
The leadership transition went into effect on Monday having been finalized in May, with Andy Jassy, formerly head of Amazon’s cloud-computing business, taking over as CEO. Bezos, 57, will remain involved in the company as executive chairman, focusing on new products and “early initiatives,” he told employees earlier this year. …
Read More »Our unequal world does not need a billionaire space race. I’d send Bezos & Branson on a one-way ticket to the Moon
It’s shocking to me that I even have to point this out. But when the world has been decimated by Covid, countless billions of people are living in poverty in both rich countries and poor countries, and when most of the world’s population has no access to good, safe and …
Read More »Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO after 27 years
Bezos, named the world’s richest man by Forbes magazine earlier this year, with assets worth some $189 billion, is set to quit his post to free up time for his space-travel venture, Blue Origin. Initially built as an online bookstore back in the 1990s, Amazon is now one of the …
Read More »#BillionaireSpaceRace: Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson to beat Amazon’s Jeff Bezos into space by NINE DAYS
Branson himself will be on board Virgin Galactic’s fourth test flight as ‘Astronaut 001,’ with the job of “evaluating customer spaceflight experience,” his company announced on Thursday evening. The 70-year-old Brit was originally supposed to be on the second Virgin Galactic flight, but was moved up in a public relations …
Read More »I commend the TikTok hecklers who bullied Bezos – Sadly, it’s the only way to hold the super-rich accountable for their actions
The person behind the camera asked, “Hey Jeff, do you feel bad when your Amazon workers die in the warehouse?” Bezos is seen in the video briefly making eye contact with the group of hecklers before being whisked away into a vehicle. However, before making his exit another heckler made …
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