Jeff Bezos will give $US200 million to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,marking one of the largest donations by the world’s richest person - days before he takes a trip to space.
Don’t be fooled by the space race between some of the world’s richest people. It’s all about the billions of dollars to be spent by governments on satellite and crewed exploration missions.
British billionaire Richard Branson has succeeded in his attempt to complete the world’s first fully crewed private space flight,reaching an altitude of around 88 kilometres over the New Mexico desert
The competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy.
The world’s richest man made $11.2 billion overnight as Amazon shares jumped after the Pentagon announced it was cancelling a lucrative cloud-computing contract with rival Microsoft.
It won’t have the same energy. The drive and vision will be gone. And so will the innovation. But Amazon’s breathtaking growth could explode after Jeff Bezos departs.
It’s the end of an era at Amazon as Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO,a position he has held over since he started the company out of his Seattle garage in 1995.
Andy Jassy will succeed Amazon boss Jeff Bezos this week and he’s just been given even more incentive to grow the company.
I’d like to see these billionaires use their brilliant minds to help save the Earth,rather than flee it.
Richard Branson plans to fly to space on July 11,just days before a similar journey by fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. The shares of Branson’s space venture Virgin Galactic surged.
On Amazon,in as little as two years,many trusted brands have all but disappeared,with unknown names making undifferentiated products of rock-bottom quality.