Jeff Bezos says he spent every summer from age four to sixteen on his grandfather's ranch in Texas.
“I spent all my summers on that ranch from age four to sixteen, and my grandfather was really taking me those in the summers.”
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Jeff Bezos says his mother was 17 when she had him.
“he was doing that because my mom was so young, she had me when she was 17.”
Jeff Bezos says that at its peak the Apollo program consumed about two to three percent of US GDP.
“at the peak, that program was spending, you know, two or 3% of GDP, uh, on the Apollo program, so much resource that I think it was pulled forward in time.”
Jeff Bezos says Americans estimated about a 75 percent chance of success for Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as the first American in space.
“the Americans thought that the Alan Shepard flight, the flight that, you know, New Shepard is named after the 1st American in space. He'd gone on his suborbital flight. They thought he had about 75% chance of success.”
Jeff Bezos says Yuri Gagarin purportedly said 'My God, it's blue' as the first person to see Earth from space.
“he purportedly said, My God, it's blue, and y- that really drives home.”
Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft has both chemical and electric propulsion, according to Jeff Bezos.
“Uh, it has two different kinds of propulsion, it has chemical propulsion and it has electric propulsion”
Jeff Bezos switched from studying physics to computer science at Princeton after concluding he would be a mediocre theoretical physicist.
“I switched to computer science and um, and you know, that worked out really well for me.”
Jeff Bezos says the New Glenn booster has seven BE-4 engines.
“The booster has seven BE-4 engines, the each engine generates a little more than 550 pounds of thrust.”
Jeff Bezos says the BE-4 engine will also power the first stage of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.
“and that engine is also going to power the 1st stage of the Vulcan rocket, which is the United Launch Alliance rocket.”
Jeff Bezos explains that friction stir welding joins metal by stirring the pieces together rather than melting them, which leaves welds as strong as the bulk material.
“And instead of using heat to weld two pieces of metal together, it literally stirs the two pieces.”
Jeff Bezos said he was very optimistic that New Glenn's first launch would happen in 2024.
“I'm very optimistic that the 1st launch of New Glenn will be in 2024.”
Jeff Bezos flew on the first crewed New Shepard flight and brought his brother along.
“I was gonna go on the 1st one, and not only was I gonna go, but I was gonna bring my brother too.”
Jeff Bezos says New Shepard has an automated escape system built around a solid rocket motor in the base of its crew capsule.
“We have a solid rocket motor in the base of the crew capsule, so that if anything goes wrong on ascent”
Jeff Bezos says he stepped down as Amazon CEO mainly to spend time on Blue Origin.
“And the reason, the primary reason I did that is so that I could spend time on Blue Origin.”
Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin had hired Dave Limp as its new CEO.
“We just hired a new CEO, a guy I've known for close to 15 years now, a guy named Dave Limp, who I love.”
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin's Mark II lander for NASA's Artemis program is designed to be reusable and to land and take off as a single stage.
“so that lander is designed to be reusable. It can land on the surface of the moon in a, in a single stage configuration and then take off.”
Jeff Bezos says the Apollo program landed on the Moon six times and ended because it was too expensive to continue.
“we went to the moon six times and then ended the program, and it really was too expensive to to continue.”
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin has built a solar cell from simulated lunar soil that is about 7 percent efficient.
“We've already built a solar cell that is completely made from lunar regolith simulant, and this solar cell is only about 7%, uh, power efficient”
Jeff Bezos says Amazon could rely on existing infrastructure such as credit cards and postal services, and he wants Blue Origin to build similar infrastructure for space.
“When I started Amazon, I didn't have to develop a payment system, it already existed. It was called the credit card.”
Jeff Bezos says he told Amazon's early investors he thought there was about a 30 percent chance of success, meaning getting their money back.
“told all of our early investors that I thought there was a 30 chance of success.”
Jeff Bezos says that during an early Amazon business review he called the customer-service line and waited many minutes, showing the reported wait-time metric was wrong.
“And I picked up the phone and I dialed the 1800 number and called customer service.”
Jeff Bezos says the human brain runs on about 20 watts, while current AI techniques use many kilowatts for comparable tasks.
“the human brain does remarkable things, and it does it on about 20 watts of power.”
Jeff Bezos says Amazon Web Services is building a foundation model called Titan and a corporate tool called Bedrock.
“we're building Titan, which is our, uh, foundational model, we're also building, y- um, Bedrock”
Jeff Bezos says meetings at Amazon and Blue Origin typically start with a six-page narrative memo that attendees read silently for about 30 minutes.
“a typical meeting will start with a six-page narratively structured memo, and we do study hall.”
Jeff Bezos says the 10,000 Year Clock was conceived by Danny Hillis in the 1980s.
“10,000 year clock is a idea conceived by a brilliant guy named Danny Hillis way back in the eighties.”
Jeff Bezos says the 10,000 Year Clock is housed inside a mountain in West Texas in a chamber about 500 feet tall.
“it's inside a mountain in West Texas, in a chamber that's about twelve feet in diameter and 500 feet tall.”