Post by account_disabled on Feb 17, 2024 11:15:12 GMT
I was about halfway through Lex Fridman's interview with Jeff Bezos, which is longer than Citizen Kane , when I realized what Bezos was doing: This is a warning shot across the bows of SpaceX. "Blue Origin needs to be much faster," Bezos said. “It's one of the reasons I left my role as CEO of Amazon a couple of years ago. I wanted to get in: Blue Origin needs me right now.” The goal, he said, was to make clear that Blue Origin, his rocket company, needed to speed things up. Bezos also showed that he understands how the shadow works: "When I was CEO of Amazon, my view on this was, 'If I'm the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're going to get my full attention.'" He didn't say "Tesla" and it wasn't necessary.
Anyone who sees Fridman will know which billionaire Europe Mobile Number List he is talking about. Look, I like my Bezos jokes, but I take him very seriously. He is focused and determined; does very little without a specific reason. So when he and his gun show appear on a podcast, I assume he has a purpose and listen accordingly. Fridman's podcast is ideal because he has a following among the tech elite and because Fridman is a softball interviewer. (He couldn't even get Bezos to reveal how much he curls!) But that's not the only thing he has going for him. Fridman has a close association with Elon Musk: he rose to fame thanks to a controversial Tesla study, followed by an interview with Musk himself. "We need to move much faster and we are going to do it.
As far as I'm concerned, Bezos appearing on Musk's fanboy podcast to talk about Blue Origin's ambitions is basically Lyndon B. Johnson unzipping his pants. Jeff has been busy! In addition to posing for some truly incredible photos with his fiancée, he has also reconfigured leadership at Blue Origin: the CEO, head of R&D, and senior vice president of operations are all gone. The new CEO, Dave Limp, comes almost directly from Amazon, where he oversaw the development of Alexa. The next launch of the New Shepard suborbital rocket is scheduled for December 18; It will be the rocket's first flight since the engine failed last year. Blue Origin has projected that its much-delayed New Glenn, the big rocket for shooting [dont swear] into space, will launch next year on a NASA small satellite mission.
