“When discussing Blue Origin, it’s almost impossible not to compare the company to SpaceX, which also has a prominent billionaire founder, Elon Musk. Bezos’ comments about being decisive are striking because that is one of the secrets to SpaceX’s success.”
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“Blue Origin needs to be much faster, and it’s one of the reasons that I left my role as the CEO of Amazon a couple of years ago,” he said.
When discussing Blue Origin, it’s almost impossible not to compare the company to SpaceX, which also has a prominent billionaire founder, Elon Musk.
Bezos recently got rid of Bob Smith, who had served as Blue Origin’s CEO for half a decade.
This echoes comments Ars reported on from another Blue Origin official, Lars Hoffman, earlier this week.
Bezos said a lot of the company’s focus has been not just on getting the first New Glenn rocket ready at Blue Origin’s factory in Florida but on building up the capacity to fly two dozen a year.
In his remarks, Bezos did not reference the company’s experiments with an experimental reusable upper stage called Project Jarvis.
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