[perlgeek]

Huh, my mental model was always that Blue Origin is a small-ish company, and ULA is a behemoth made from merging two already-behemoth launch companies. I guess I never validated these assumptions, and I didn't really count the amount of money that Bezos might put into such a deal.

[AnarchismIsCool]

They've made essentially zero dollars over two and a half decades but when your founders have infinite money, you can be as big of a fish as you want.

[panick21_]

Because you assume outcomes are related to how many people a company have. This isn't the case. Blue Origin is basically the size of SpaceX, just without actual doing much. Bezos is literally just burning like 2 billion $ every single year on that company. And they are pretty vertically integrated.

ULA on the other hand is the opposite, they are just the launcher, they don't build their own engine and in general get most things from suppliers.

But based on revenue of course, BO is nowhere near able to buy ULA. Its literally just more billion directly out of Bezos pocket.

[NoahKAndrews]

Note that Boeing and Lockheed own ULA jointly, they're not a part of ULA.