{"id":88113,"date":"2019-02-23T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-just-gave-a-private-talk-in-new-york-from-utopian-space-colonies-to-dissing-elon-musks-martian-dream-here-are-the-most-notable-things-he-said"},"modified":"2019-02-23T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:42:25","slug":"jeff-bezos-just-gave-a-private-talk-in-new-york-from-utopian-space-colonies-to-dissing-elon-musks-martian-dream-here-are-the-most-notable-things-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-just-gave-a-private-talk-in-new-york-from-utopian-space-colonies-to-dissing-elon-musks-martian-dream-here-are-the-most-notable-things-he-said","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos just gave a private talk in New York. From utopian space colonies to dissing Elon Musk\u2019s Martian dream, here are the most notable things he said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-just-gave-a-private-talk-in-new-york-from-utopian-space-colonies-to-dissing-elon-musks-martian-dream-here-are-the-most-notable-things-he-said.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bezos: \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll live on planets\u2026I think we\u2019ll live in giant O\u2019Neal-style space colonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, gave a talk to a members-only event at the Yale Club in New York on Tuesday. <\/li>\n<li> During the 30-minute lecture, Bezos said his private aerospace company, Blue Origin, would launch its first people into space aboard a New Shepard rocket in 2019. <\/li>\n<li> Bezos also questioned the capabilities of a space tourism competitor, Virgin Galactic, and criticized the goal of Elon Musk and SpaceX to settle Mars with humans. <\/li>\n<li> Ultimately, Bezos said he wants Blue Origin to enable a space-faring civilization where \u201ca Mark Zuckerberg of space\u201d and \u201c1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins\u201d can flourish. <\/li>\n<li> Bezos advised the crowd to hold a powerful, personal long-term vision, but to devote \u201cthe vast majority of your energy and attention\u201d on shorter-term activities and those ranging up to 2- or 3-year timeframes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jeff Bezos may be the <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-amazon-ceo-123-billion-net-worth-2018-12 > richest human on Earth,<\/a> as the founder of Amazon, but his ultimate dreams reside within a relatively <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-helicopter-crash-2018-3 > obscure company called Blue Origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as Bezos told the CEO of Business Insider\u2019s parent company <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-interview-axel-springer-ceo-amazon-trump-blue-origin-family-regulation-washington-post-2018-4 > in April 2018<\/a>, he liquidates <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-liquidates-billions-to-fund-blue-origin-2018-4 > $1 billion of stock a year<\/a> to fund his private aerospace outfit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-wings-club-presentation-transcript-2019-2\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-wings...2019&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bezos: \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll live on planets\u2026I think we\u2019ll live in giant O\u2019Neal-style space colonies.\u201d Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, gave a talk to a members-only event at the Yale Club in New York on Tuesday. During the 30-minute lecture, Bezos said his private aerospace company, Blue Origin, would launch its first people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}