Jeff Bezos is quietly backing a potential Tesla killer
If it succeeds, it could hurt Tesla.
Ever since Jeff Bezos and his wife founded Amazon in his garage back in 1994, turning it from a simple online bookseller into one of the world's biggest businesses, people have been looking to the entrepreneur and wondering what he might take on next.
They got one answer to that question in the form of Blue Origin, a spaceflight startup that Bezos founded in Sept. 2000. Bezos wouldn't step down from his role as Amazon CEO until 2021, but he has remained involved in Blue Origin since its founding. While Blue Origin is not currently profitable, it is hard at work on some big goals, and it did reach orbit for the first time with its New Glenn rocket in January 2025.