7 thoughts on ““Is This A Hobby, Or A Business?””

  1. Branson was a hobbyist
    Bezos is a dilettante
    Musk is an entrepreneur

    NASA is a RICO conviction or 200 waiting to happen.

    1. Branson was always the dilettante. Perpetually in over his head, a taker of bad advice and a maker of bad decisions, he was seldom around except for staged events. He also exercised poor choice in the matter of subordinates.

      Bezos started out as a hobbyist, shifted into dilettante mode for a few years as he hit his mid-life crisis and is now attempting a further shift to actual entrepreneurship at Blue. He may well succeed at the most recent attempted transformation, but he’s never going to catch Musk and SpaceX. That gap will simply continue to grow. Bezos and Limp will have their hands full just keeping Rocket Lab and Stoke from blowing past Blue. Five years hence, Bezos and Limp could be watching the tail lights of both pulling away in the distance. SpaceX’s tail lights will be too far ahead to descry.

      Musk has been, is, and will continue to be, the greatest entrepreneur of the age – quite possibly of any age. By next week he may well be humanity’s first half-trillionaire. In the coming decade – and assuming neither his body nor his protective detail fails him – he seems certain to add first trillionaire and first multi-trillionaire to that list of benchmarks.

  3. I think Foust wrote that whole review just so he could say, “that would be literally once in a Blue Moon.”

    Lol

  4. No matter how many times I’ve seen the “Blue Clubbers” (my new name for for BO fans – it’s supposed to sound like an elite Golf Club!) trumpet that the company is about to accelerate…somehow they haven’t yet.

    It’s too bad, but I trace the main cause to be Bezos’ excessive respect for certain ‘Old Space’ types and their assumptions. He should have instead looked to the unconventional thinkers in the field instead for development and operations axioms.

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