News / billionaires
-
1 min read
Bezos Spent Billions on a Rocket and Built a Slow-Motion Lawn Dart
Read more . . . →Jeff Bezos just stranded a satellite in the wrong orbit because his rocket company couldn’t get the engine right. Blue Origin admitted Monday that a “bad engine” doomed the New Glenn launch over the weekend, leaving the customer’s payload as the world’s most expensive piece of garbage. The richest man on earth — the guy who built an empire on warehouses where workers piss in bottles to make rate — cannot reliably make a rocket go up. He just spent another fortune learning that fact in front of everyone. The mythology around these guys is that they’re visionary builders. Then...
Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay.