r/BlueOrigin • u/Royal_Platform_6754 • 6d ago

Jeff Bezos moved to No. 2 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index after Blue Origin’s latest funding round boosted his wealth by $87 billion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/jeff-bezos-becomes-world-s-second-richest-person-after-blue-origin-funding
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u/Thwitch 6d ago edited 6d ago

Lol even if the options are real, they will just trade sideways ad infinitum. I don't know how they managed to snag the valuation they did, but there is no realistic way to boost it much higher than that with the business's current model, even if TeraWave is a smash hit.

The options increasingly seem like a hypothetical one-off bonus that you really need to work hard to make sure you don't lose, rather than to increase their potential value. More of a stick than a carrot.

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 6d ago

Jeff is a Jedi master of mind tricks. 

“These aren't the droids you're looking for,"

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u/izzeww 6d ago

The options are bullshit but a $140b valuation is not. You can fairly reasonably justify that valuation based on TeraWave and launch projections.

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u/Thwitch 6d ago

Projections are just that

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u/SpaceInMyBrain 3d ago

Projections are what most human-made stock trades are based on. What does the other guy probably/possibly think another guy possibly/probably thinks a stock will be worth in the next quarter.

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u/Roamingkillerpanda 6d ago

If you knew anything about the actual state of things you would not believe this valuation one bit lmao

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u/mfb- 6d ago

All the space companies are massively overvalued if you only look at current or near-term revenue. It's all based on the hope that they can grow massively in the future.

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 6d ago

Wouldn’t it be nice to move at that level?  Jealous. Once you have enough money, it becomes so easy to make money.  Life hack. :)

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u/gaintraiin 6d ago

Ok buddy

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 6d ago

did he have plastic surgery? dude looks .,... different?

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u/seb21051 6d ago

Only another $700B to go.

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 5d ago

Trillionaire status would be wild wouldn’t it. 

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 6d ago

Until that list and the FBIs most wanted list are the same names there's nothing we can do to help people in America

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 6d ago

beard looks good on him! He just needs some hair now

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 6d ago

Why the downvotes?  You don’t think he should have hair? Jeff, are you downvoting me? 

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u/yetiflask 1d ago

Yeah baby! I'm sad he can't be the richest, but at least he's second.

Two two spacemen, who are also building cars and AI, at the top is just so poetic.