Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Bezos about Blue Origin and Amazon. Jeff also admitted the obvious that Blue Origin’s progress has been too slow and Elon Musk is a great business leader.
0:00 – Introduction
0:24 – Texas ranch and childhood
4:02 – Space exploration and rocket engineering
16:36 – Physics
26:10 – New Glenn rocket
1:08:59 – Lunar program
1:18:55 – Amazon
1:36:16 – Principles
1:54:56 – Productivity
2:05:34 – Future of humanity
Bezos prefers to have meetings based upon a 6-page memo instead of powerpoint presentations. Jeff thinks it is too easy to hide sloppy thinking behind a power point presentation.
Blue Origin is making solar powered cryocoolers so that hydrogen in fuel tanks on the moon or in space will have far less evaporation.
Blue Origin is part of group making an expandable lunar lander that would take 3 tons to the moon. The lander would stay on the moon.
They have made a 7% efficient solar cell made from simulated lunar regolith.
They can get oxygen from lunar regolith.
There are lot of winners in the internet. Bezos believes that there will be a lot of winners in space.
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