In 2017, he said that he was selling a company for financing Blue Origin.

Blue Origin on July 20 successfully made a flight into space. On board the New Shepard ship was the owner of Jeff Bezos, his younger brother Mark, 82-year-old pilot Wally Fank and physicist Oliver Damen.
At a press conference, after flight, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon employees and clients.
I want to thank each Amazon employee and each Amazon client, because you guys paid for all this. Seriously, each customer of Amazon and each Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Jeff Bezos
In 2017, Jeff Bezos said that he was selling Amazon shares for $ 1 billion a year to finance Blue Origin to his aerospace company.
The founder of Amazon flew into space on July 20. The flight lasted about 10 minutes and passed automatically.
In the social networks of the billionaire, they criticized for useless, according to users, a waste of money, recalled working conditions in Amazon and ironic over the shape of the ship.
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