Jeff Bezos believes his space venture Blue Origin will one day be a bigger company than Amazon.
"I think it's going to be the best business that I've ever been involved in, but it's going to take a while," Bezos said on Wednesday."I think it's going to be the best business that I've ever been involved in, but it's going to take a while," Bezos said Wednesday at The New York Times' DealBook Summit.
Amazon, which Bezos founded in 1994, has a market value of about $2.3 trillion. Blue Origin, which Bezos founded in 2000, has never disclosed a valuation. He solely owns and funds Blue Origin through sales of his Amazon stock.
Spacecraft delivery startup founded by former SpaceX rocket guru raises $150 million, led by Founders Fund Limp, a former Amazon executive, queried Bezos before taking the top post at Blue Origin at the beginning of the year. He stepped into the role as the company, a perceived rival toBlue Origin for years has been flying tourists and research to the edge of space on short jaunts, including Bezos himself. The company's projects reach from rockets and spacecraft to space stations and lunar landers.
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