[blhack]

SpaceX is light years beyond what they are doing right now.

--but--

Jeff Bezos has said he plans on spending $1 Billion/year on blue origin.

Unlike SpaceX, they don't need to actually worry about money.

To put in perspective how much money Jeff Bezos has (and he is somebody who really want to do space travel): he could privately fund a manned mission to mars and still remain the richest man in the world.

It's just incomprehensible the resources that they have there. Blue O will almost definitely catch SpaceX.

[lstodd]

He might as well spend $10B a year, results will be the same. Time is money, but money isn't time.

[drawnwren]

Bezos frequently speaks about efficiency of deploying capital. My guess is he doesn't believe he would get 10x results from 10x investment.

[Tepix]

I'm sure that there is some speedup when he starts spending more than $1 billion. Given that his net worth reached $150 billion it seems like it's safe to go to $2 billion/year without running out of money during his lifetime.