How serious could the suborbital space race between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get? (GeekWire photos) Would Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson try to steal a march from Blue Origin (and Amazon) founder Jeff Bezos when it comes to which billionaire will fly his own suborbital spaceship first? There was some excitement over the question … Read more
He already has the tuxedo, now Jeff Bezos has Bond too. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Doesn’t quite sound like the introduction of a certain British secret agent. But that’s not something that $ 8.5 billion can’t fix, is it? No sooner had Amazon announced its multi-billion dollar bid to acquire … Read more
Jeff Bezos in Seattle in 2016. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) It’s not exactly the type of ship that would frolic near the shores of Amazon’s South Lake Union campus in Seattle, but Jeff Bezos reportedly plans to set sail on his own boat. But at Bezos’ level of prosperity, boats are actually referred … Read more
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, testified before Congress on antitrust concerns last summer. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality next week – a decision made hours after Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) invited the billionaire to give his thoughts on it Report matter, reports CNBC. Sanders … Read more
Bill Gates, Bill Boeing and Jeff Bezos redefined their industries and the Seattle area. (GeekWire photos by Gates and Bezos; Boeing photo from the San Diego Air & Space Museum archives, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.) [Sandeep Krishnamurthy is dean of the School of Business at the University of Washington, Bothell.] Comment: Jeff Bezos just … Read more