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Jeffrey Bezos

Founder & Executive Chairman, Amazon

Search every verified Jeffrey Bezos interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jeffrey Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin, discussed his company's lunar ambitions and the competitive landscape with China during a recent appearance on Fox News' "Special Report." He stated that the U.S. must "beat China to the moon" and expressed confidence that the U.S. will do so, citing NASA's focus and the work of Blue Origin's employees. Bezos described the moon as a necessary first step before Mars, noting its proximity and resources, and said he believes humans can land on the moon in 2028. He also commented on artificial intelligence, comparing current investment in the technology to past industrial bubbles, and suggested that while speculators may lose money, the underlying inventions typically persist. In a separate appearance, Bezos reflected on the explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during an engine test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. He described the incident as a "gut punch" for the company's 15,000 employees but emphasized that no one was hurt and that the team had responded by continuing production and working toward a return to flight before the end of the year. Bezos drew parallels to historical setbacks in space exploration, such as the Apollo 1 tragedy, and noted that such challenges are part of difficult achievements. He also mentioned that Blue Origin's landing platform is named "Jacqueline" after his mother, and that the New Glenn rocket is named in honor of astronaut John Glenn.

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“What happens in these industrial bubbles — there's been many of them. So you can think of the biotech bubble in the 90s. There was the internet bubble in the early 2000s that popped. What happens is speculators can lose money because they're investing in all of these things. But the inventions don't disappear when the bubble pops. So if you take the biotech bubble in the 90s, investors lost money, speculators in this”

“We have to beat China to the moon. I believe we will beat China to the moon. It's very important thing to do. NASA is very focused on it. And we have a bunch of very smart hard-working people here at Blue Origin working on the goal of landing humans on the moon. Before that, landing cargo on the moon. We have to land cargo routinely on the moon to support a lunar base on the moon. So a lot of work to be done. There's”

“If we can accelerate that dream build cycle, it will create real productivity, real prosperity. And so that's the idea behind Prometheus. And it can't be done with traditional large language models. They have a place, but they aren't trained with the right data to be able to do detailed engineering.”

“We are supply constrained. We are not demand constrained. And it's being driven by communications with LEO constellations. It's being driven by national security missions and it's being driven in the future by things like orbital compute and lunar resources and NASA programs to return to the moon. This time to stay.”

“If we can accelerate the dream build loop, it changes everything. The goal would be, if today you came to me and you said, 'Jeff, I need a new jet engine with 10% more thrust,' even if I had built 50 jet engines already, I would still tell you that's going to be a 10-year program. Can we at Prometheus build a set of tools to make that be 5 years, and then 3 years, and then 2 years, and then 1 year?”

“We are supply constrained. We are not demand constrained. Demand for launch is insatiable right now. We have a tremendous backlog already on our books for launch. Every space launch company has tremendous backlog.”

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