OPINION: It’s one of those images. Once seen, near impossible to wipe from your mind. The portrait shows the 59-year-old tech billionaire Jeff Bezos splayed.
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In 2019, Jeff Bezos posed the question: What happens when unlimited demand meets finite resources?
Bezos sees space as a place where the weather could be like Maui on its best days and, without gravity, where people would fly with their own wings.
Is the billionaire Amazon founder the best person to be lecturing about overconsumption in a world of finite resources?
Jeff Bezos has been warning us for years that humans can t sustain our current rate of consumption. What happens when unlimited demand meets finite resources? The answer is incredibly simple: rationing, Bezos said in a 2019 speech, where he announced that his space travel company Blue Origin had developed a lunar lander. It would lead to the first time where your grandchildren and their grandchildren would have worse lives than you did that s a bad path.
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No reason to let Tesla have all the fun.
When we re talking EVs and space travel, Tesla is certainly the first automaker to come to mind. Not only does Musk own his own exploration company in Space X, he also sent a new Tesla roadster into orbit, which has recently passed Mars. But today it s Rivian s turn.
CEO RJ Scaringe doesn t own a space company, but his brand is partnering with Amazon on delivery vehicles. And that company s owner does have his own space program in Bezos Blue Origin. On April 15 the company launched a reusable space capsule and two Rivian R1Ts showed up to retrieve it.
washington post. his past investments might help answer that question. a few months ago he helped this website, business insider, raise $5 million to hire more reporters and more salesmen. in retrospect, maybe bezos was dipping his toe in these waters. now that he s dived all the way in with the post i spoke with business insider hedge reblodget about where he thinks the paper is headed. when you heard about the sale, how did you react? i was very startled. when i thought about it, i wasn t surprised. jeff bezos has made big, bold bets that people think are insane for his entire life. it worked out very well and when i thought about it, this made a lot of sense. you bet heavily on amazon and more recently you talked about an investment here. when did that start? i knew him in the 90s and a year and a half ago he asked me to dinner. which was great. we talked about a lot of things,