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Chamath: ULA, Blue Origin, and European launch providers are too inconsistent to rely on
“You can't launch with ULA because they're inconsistent. You can't launch with Blue Origin because they're inconsistent. You can't launch with the Europeans in general because they're inconsistent. SpaceX is the only solution”
Sacks calls Jeff Bezos's spaceflight decision a foolish idea enabled by sycophants
“Quite frankly, I think this is a brain fart that the people around him are telling him smells like perfume and they should be telling him, dude, what are you thinking?”
Friedberg predicts Jeff Bezos will announce he is becoming Blue Origin CEO
“My prediction is Bezos is going to come back, and he's going to announce that he's going to be the CEO of Blue Origin.”
Ackman: Amazon will have to become an even bigger SpaceX customer
“Even Amazon is going to have to become an even bigger customer because they're not, you know, Blue Origins, you know”
Chamath: Filing lawsuits alienates the top technical talent Blue Origin needs
“In order for Jeff to achieve his ambitions, he needs deeply technical people. And this is the simplest way to basically turn them off because this is not what technical people do.”