Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ new $78million Hawaii estate that spans fourteen acres and is on dormant lava fields

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just purchased a $78million private Hawaii estate that spans 14 acres and is surrounded by dormant lava fields. Bezos, 57, purchased the three-building estate on La Perouse Bay on Valley Isle in Maui, Hawaii, recently for an estimated $78million, adding to his $500 million property portfolio which includes property in New York City, … Read more

Tom Hanks says Jeff Bezos invited him to go to space – but only if he paid $28MILLION

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Tom Hanks admitted Jeff Bezos invited him to go to space for a cool $28million before imitating the short flight on Jimmy Kimmel’s couch. Hanks, 65, didn’t seem too worried that he missed the excited 10 minute and 17 second ride in a phallic-shaped rocket ship Blue Origin after turning down 57-year-old Amazon CEO Jeff … Read more

Jeff Bezos tells COP26 how going to space made him realise ‘how thin the globe’s atmosphere’ is

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaking at the Leaders’ Action on Forests and Land-use event during the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow Nature provides all the food we eat, the water we drink, and the oxygen we breathe. It gives us life. It is beautiful, but it is also fragile. I … Read more

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos pledges £732m to help reforestation in Africa after chat with Prince Charles 

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Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos pledges £732m to help reforestation in Africa after chat with Prince Charles about the importance of trees Prince Charles played a key role in getting Jeff Bezos to pledge £732million Amazon founder is matching a past contribution for land restoration in Africa  The Great Green Wall initiative will plant 20m trees across … Read more

‘What a fool’: Dame Joan Collins slams William Shatner’s epic space mission

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Dame Joan Collins brands William Shatner ‘a fool’ while criticising his epic space mission in Saturday’s upcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show.  Shatner, 90, made history earlier this month when he became the oldest man to meet space after rocketing up into the atmosphere in one of Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin vessels. But Joan, … Read more

Morgan Stanley predicts Elon Musk will become a trillionaire with exponential growth of SpaceX

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Elon Musk, who recently supplanted his galactic rival Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest man, will add another bragging right over the Amazon founder as financial experts predict the Tesla boss will become the first trillionaire due to the exponential growth of SpaceX.  In a note titled ‘SpaceX Escape Velocity … Who Can Catch Them?’ … Read more

Succession star Brian Cox says billionaires like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have ‘lost the plot’

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‘The last thing this world needs is more spaceships’: Succession star Brian Cox says billionaires like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have ‘lost the plot’ Cox, 75, was asked about billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson on Tuesday He said ‘these rich guys do lose the plot sometimes’  Scottish actor plays fictional billionaire Logan Roy … Read more

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully completes the 17th launch of its New Shepard rocket

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Blue Origin completed the 17th launch of its New Shepard Thursday, marking the first mission since founder Jeff Bezos took his own journey to the edge of space.  The 60-foot-tall rocket came alive at 10:31am ET Thursday when it took off from the firm’s West Texas facility while carrying 18 scientific payloads, 11 of which are … Read more