[melling]

XCOR filed for bankruptcy. That’s not profitable.

Virgin Galactic isn’t a profitable company either. They could be, of course.

My point was that you can start with a small company with a well-defined goal and product then continue to grow the vision, as long as you remain profitable.

[Jach]

Yeah I don't disagree here, my point was that Blue Origin's particular goal and product bootstrapping from space tourism has already been tried and more or less failed. Whereas Musk's/SpaceX's goal is to get a Mars colony going, they started with something different than space tourism and it seems to be working out.

[melling]

Virgin Galactic hasn’t failed yet. Someone was killed so they’ve been extremely cautious.

Bezos is a good business person. It’s quite possible he’ll run thin margins and grow the business.