CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

I heard that the management culture at blue was pretty toxic and Bob was a big part of the problem. They have many super talented hard working engineers but are run by accountants and a bunch of Boeing management rejects. That is a huge cause of organizational problems.

IIRC, Bezos used to sell $1Bn worth of Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin, not sure what the funding format is now.<p>Blue Origin is proof that just throwing money at a problem does not achieve results, and saying the Musk&#x27;s only contribution to SpaceX to was &quot;using his money to buy success&quot; is a fallacy.<p>I don&#x27;t how much you can look into his &quot;engineering&quot; prowess.. but clearly it was more than zero.

This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos bucks they’d be able to find someone better.

If a rocket company CEO can be replaced by an e-tail company exec, what do CEOs do that warrant such high earnings again

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Blue Origin is a joke. They seem to spend most of there effort building buildings. And the engines they&#x27;re supplying for Vulcan Rockets are delayed.