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Jeff Bezos

Owner (via Nash Holdings), The Washington Post

Search every verified Jeff Bezos interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and executive chair of Amazon, appeared at the VivaTech conference in Paris in June 2026, where he discussed space exploration, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship. He described Blue Origin’s efforts to build infrastructure for a "dynamic space economy," including a Mark 1 lunar lander that he said would land NASA’s Viper rover on the moon later in the year. Bezos stated that his long-term vision is for polluting industry to be moved off Earth, allowing the planet to be "returned to its pre-industrial revolution state." He also argued that AI will create a labor shortage rather than eliminate jobs, saying that "we are limited not by our imaginations, but by what we can actually do" and that accelerating the "dream-build loop" will make more ideas possible. In a May 2026 appearance on CNBC’s *Squawk Box*, Bezos addressed wealth inequality and tax policy. He said that the bottom half of income earners in the U.S. pay 3% of all taxes and that he believes that figure "should be zero." He added that the U.S. does not have a revenue problem but a "spending problem," citing New York City’s school system as an example of inefficiency. Bezos also predicted that AI-driven productivity gains could lead to deflation in areas such as food and housing, and he cautioned against "hamstring[ing]" the technology with regulation too early.

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“Well, uh you know what we're trying to do is build all the infrastructure so there can be a completely dynamic space economy. uh today the cost of admission to space is still very high. If you look back at what I witnessed in the internet space over the last you know two and a half decades you saw an environment where because all this infrastructure existed the global networks and so on so on very small companies cou”

“Well, uh you know what we're trying to do is build all the infrastructure so there can be a completely dynamic space economy. uh today the cost of admission to space is still very high. If you look back at what I witnessed in the internet space over the last you know two and a half decades you saw an environment where because all this infrastructure existed global networks and so on so on very small companies could b”

“We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue. The bottom half pay only 3%. We have already, and I think it should be zero. I don't think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero. So we would be making more progressive that way. We actually have a spending problem and that's a skills issue.”

“I think it's kind of a tale of two economies. So you have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling, struggling to pay rent, groceries. And so what's, you know, what's happening here is politicians are using the kind of age old techniques. So there's this tale of two economies, and they're using this age old technique of, you kn”

“We're in a phase where every experiment is getting funded. So what that means is the like the good ideas are getting funded and the bad ideas are getting funded. And it's because investors in this at this moment haven't learned yet how to discriminate between good ideas and bad ideas. And that's okay because the good ideas will pay for all of the losers.”

“I pay billions of dollars in taxes and it's a per again if people want me to pay more billions, right? Then let's have that debate. But don't pretend, you know, that this that that's going to solve the problem. You could you could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens.”

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