Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that he wants space colonies to follow Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s example at a private event in New York on Tuesday, according to Business Insider.
Bezos gave a talk in New York City on Tuesday about his aerospace company Blue Origin, in an event organized by the Wings Club at the Yale Club, and moderated by Space News writer Jeff Foust.
The Amazon CEO, who founded the company in his garage over two decades ago, said that he thinks colonies in space should follow the spirit of entrepreneurship that Zuckerberg showed in starting Facebook.
"An even more stark example is Facebook. Here's a guy who literally, in his dorm room, started a company — Mark Zuckerberg started a company in his dorm room, which is now worth half a trillion dollars — less than two decades ago," Bezos said.
"I want to take the assets that I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will [help] the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space — kind of build that transportation network.”
"The solar system can support a trillion humans, and then we'd have 1,000 Mozarts, and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how incredible and dynamic that civilization will be," Bezos said in his speech before warning that “we don’t have forever.”
Blue Origin is currently constructing a “low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle,” and Bezos said he “really want[s] that dynamic life and civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren. But we've got to get started."
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