{"id":796030,"date":"2026-10-08T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796030\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:50:09","slug":"elon-musk-says-bravo-to-jeff-bezos-for-piling-28b-into-blue-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796030\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says ‘Bravo!’ to Jeff Bezos for Piling $28B Into Blue Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no love lost<\/a> between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, but the Tesla and SpaceXAI CEO has openly applauded the Amazon founder for pouring nearly $30 billion of his fortune into building his spaceflight company.<\/p>\n

“Bravo!” Musk replied on X to a clip of Bezos telling Fox News during a live interview<\/a> on Wednesday that he’s “personally invested $28 billion” in Blue Origin since founding it in 2000.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad Jeff Bezos cares so much about space,” Musk added.<\/p>\n

Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021 but remains the e-commerce giant’s executive chair, said Blue Origin had\u00a0just raised more than<\/a> $10 billion<\/a> in its first external funding round.<\/p>\n

The serial entrepreneur<\/a>, worth $285 billion as of Wednesday’s close per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, told Fox News’ Bret Baier that it was the right time to cease self-funding the company.<\/p>\n

“I see the financial future of Blue with some clarity now, and I didn’t really want to take outside investors until I was sure it would be a good investment for them,” he said.<\/p>\n

Bezos added that he expects Blue Origin to “be a public company at some point,” but its IPO will be “several years from now<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

@RedWavePress Bravo! I\u2019m glad @JeffBezos cares so much about space.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Musk and Bezos have historically\u00a0butted heads<\/a>\u00a0over launchpads, government contracts, patents, talent, copycatting, and more, with Musk once labeling Bezos’ company “Sue Origin.”<\/p>\n

But the first- and third-richest people on the planet have also spoken admiringly of each other. Musk has said he pokes fun at Bezos because he wants to goad him<\/a> into working harder at Blue Origin, so he may well have praised Bezos for piling $28 billion of his own money into the company because that’s a clear sign of dedication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s no love lost between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, but the Tesla and SpaceXAI CEO has openly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[91223,261759,4355,15664,1944,995,22669,261757,51340,8897,261758,8373,90,416,39438,56,54,55,5952],"class_list":["post-796030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-bezos","tag-bloomberg-billionaires-index","tag-blue-origin","tag-bravo","tag-company","tag-elon-musk","tag-fox-news","tag-government-contract","tag-head","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-launchpads","tag-patent","tag-science","tag-space","tag-talent","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}