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Oswald Oschin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
705 total appearances

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TechStuff
Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

The founding of the company, he put his money towards it, but it's been, he's, he's not running it as a charity.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

Like, yes, he put his own bill, you know, money towards it for sure originally, but now we're all stuck with it, you know?

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

And I think we're all stuck subsidizing parts of it potentially.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

Yeah.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

I mean, it just changes the mythologizing point slightly, which is like, it's, it's like, yeah, they're, maybe they're mythologizing.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

It's like, I mean, how many people would, would like take all of their own money essentially and like put it into a space company back when there were no space, like private, the private space industry didn't even really exist.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

And like,

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

I mean, go up against all the primes.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

But if you want to talk about mythologizing, right?

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

Like that space stuff was what a lot of people used in the 2010s to say, like, look at this forward thinking futurist billionaire.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

I'm not saying that all of space, by the way, was motivated by that.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

But I think he's leveraged the company throughout the years to kind of push this idea of himself, you know, whether intentionally or not.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

And now, like, the whole company is this giant conglomerate of AI and space and internet and, like, that, I mean, I see it financially.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

Like, sure, it makes, it hypes it up.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

It makes it more appealing to some people.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

But isn't that just completely incoherent?

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

I don't know, Reed, do you have, like, a deeper explanation of this huge role?

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

No, I think it's...

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

No, I think it's coherent.

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Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech

I don't know, maybe I'm crazy.