Elon Musk once praised a rocket CEO who didn't go to college for beating Jeff Bezos to orbit, new book reveals: 'Bezos has spent a shitload of money, and he hasn't made it'
Like SpaceX, Rocket Lab has been— something Bezos' Blue Origin company has not yet achieved. The $1.84 billion company, which went public in 2021 via a SPAC merger, now trades on the Nasdaq.
The achievement of reaching orbit is even more impressive when you contrast Rocket Lab's CEO, Peter Beck, with Musk and Bezos. Beck, who hails from southern New Zealand, isn't a billionaire and . Instead of college, which Beck told Vance"never felt" right for him, he entered the die-making trade"because it's hard." He worked at a dishwasher manufacturer and did research in a government lab early in his career, Vance wrote.
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