Blue Origin's continuous failures will finally be exposed today. Jeff Bezos,
the company's founder, had the ambition to transport humans to the moon and probably
dominate it. But after the company faced severe failures that became very consistent,
Jeff at some point got confused about where the company is heading.
He may have lost focus and decided to step down as CEO and hand over to Andy Jassy. The
question now is that; Is Jeff Bezos giving up on landing the New Glenn rocket on the moon?
Bezos has been mute on activities that are going on in Blue Origin, contrary to how Elon
behaves toward SpaceX. Is Jeff Bezos escaping from all the challenges in Blue Origin?
Today, we will reveal many secrets running up in Blue Origin, which is hidden from the public;
it may also be why Blue Origin keeps operating sluggishly on launching rockets into space. Stick
around to find out what has been running under the carpet in Blue Origin, which has
lingered to the company's source of failures. Blue origin has been cold for some time now,
and a whistleblower has finally revealed what is happening in Blue Origin;
that is almost making it melt down, and soon the company may file for bankruptcy.
Alexandra Abrams worked on Blue Origin's communications team for two and a half years.
At one point, she was sure she would spend her whole life working for Jeff
Bezos's space company. That she considered tattooing its feather logo on her body.
However, she is now a whistleblower, exposing what she and others claim is a toxic culture within
Blue Origin. She once wrote a critical essay with 20 other anonymous current and former Blue Origin
employees, which has already been published. The authors allege a workplace that tolerated
sexism among a clique of senior leaders close to Bezos and cut corners in a race
to meet deadlines and beat rival space entrepreneurs, demoralizing employees
and jeopardizing the project's safety. She claims that while the company's engineers
worked hard to deliver the best products, senior leaders tasked them to do too much, too quickly,
and with a few workers to achieve their goals. "When the first human flight came out,
I saw Blue Origin saying safety was their top mission, from what I know,
that was not the case." Abrams says. Blue Origin says that Abrams was fired
"after being warned over and over again about problems with federal export control rules."
She thinks the company is talking about an attempt to make an internal app that left
some company information on foreign servers. She helped report and fix this problem.
Suppose you break government rules about space technology, you could get fired, but Abrams said
she never got any written or verbal warnings like that. Instead, she says she was fired
because she disagreed with changing employee contracts that would have forced all disputes,
including those about sexual harassment, to be settled by binding arbitration.
Similar stuff like this happened in Google. For instance, after several top executives
were accused of sexual harassment, Google changed a similar policy to this to settle
a lawsuit by shareholders. When Blue Origin wanted to make its employee contracts more
binding by adding arbitration, Abrams said no and warned of a backlash.
Ultimately, she persuaded the executives to remove sexual harassment from the arbitration
policy. She says that Smith and other top leaders lost trust in her because of her decision.
"I felt complicit as the head of employee communications," says Abrams, who never got
that Blue Origin tattoo. Now, she says, "I feel that I am fulfilling my job description
for the first time through this effort…to give agencies and the public the information they
need to change their approach, to provide oversight in a way that ensures safety."
Talking about the ULA, they chose the BE-4 engine for their next-generation Vulcan rocket. Since
rocket science is difficult to come by, they are taking their time. One of the most critical ways
that SpaceX and Blue Origin are different is by using various testing plans. SpaceX
uses rapid iterative testing, which means they build it, test it until it breaks,
look at what went wrong, fix it, and try it again. Much like software engineering.
On the other hand, Blue Origin tests everything. First, they build the whole thing and then try
it all at once. Rapid iterative testing gives you results much faster but costs a lot more.
On the other hand, all-up testing takes longer, but it's more cost-effective.
The way Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos think is also very different. Elon doesn't care if he gets bad
publicity or gets in trouble for saying what many would not like. Give a thought about when he said
that anyone that has a blue make on twitter will have to pay $8 per month to sustain the account,
since he is now the CEO of twitter. He can also joke about his rockets exploding. And
that’s quite opposite to how Jeff does his stuff. He cares a lot more about the image
of his company, and he is more of a classic businessman than a rocket engineer.
The main engineer for Blue Origin's failed lunar lander program has moved on to work
for a competitor, SpaceX Aurora. He worked for blue origin for more than two years.
Blue Origin will go bankrupt because it has lost its best employees to competitors;
like SpaceX and Boeing, which is a massive setback for Bezos and his company.
Jeff Bezos is currently the world's fourth richest man, with a net worth of $166.8 billion. However,
he stepped down from amazon as CEO to dedicate more time to his initiative, like the Bezos Earth
Fund. He handed over his role to Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon's cloud-computing business.
This means Bezos doesn't really have his company Blue Origin at heart. He has so
many initiatives he is working on. Yet, he still needs to do some perfectly.
Elon musk, on the other hand, is the world's richest man with a staggering net worth of 191.2
billion dollars, and he is the real deal. All his focus has always been on building one company,
overseeing it, and making sure it is successful; not just successful,
but he also makes sure that any of these companies he has worked on is known all over the world
before he moves to build another company. Musk concentrates on one thing, sees through it,
and makes sure it's successful before moving to the next, Unlike Jeff Bezos,
who is scattered on all his ventures and handing it over to someone else as soon as he notices
the company is not seeing much success. So, who can you tell should be called the Boss here?
Before we go any further, let's talk about the fact that the CEOs of both Blue Origin and
SpaceX are two different capable billionaires. Over the years, their rivalry has led to some
nasty name-calling and Twitter spats. All of the arguments between Bezos and
Musk began in 2004 when neither Blue Origin nor SpaceX had done any launches. But Bezos
and Musk met to talk about their plans for reusable rockets. Things didn't go as planned,
but Musk said that he tried to give Bezos advice in 2013 but that Bezos ignored him.
When both companies tried to rent the same launch pad from NASA, the rivalry between
them heated up again. SpaceX wanted to be the only one to use the pad, so Blue Origin went
to court to restrict SpaceX from using it. Bezos said it should be turned into a commercial
spaceport for all launch companies, but Musk said it shouldn't be, and he took
a shot at blue origin by saying that even after 10 years, they still haven't gotten anywhere.
The company still needs to make an orbiting spacecraft that works. Blue Origin has had
more bad luck than SpaceX getting the right to take over the launch site.
NASA did not give Blue Origin the contract to build the lunar lander that would
take astronauts to the moon's surface in 2024. Bezos disagreed with the decisions,
so he filed a complaint accusing NASA of changing bidding rules.
Musk slammed Bezos with a 50-page protest and a tweet that said, "can't get it up to
orbit," which was very funny yet annoying. When comparing how happy employees are with Blue
Origin's leadership to how happy they are with the leadership of other large space companies,
like SpaceX and Boeing, employee evaluations on the job site glass door often mention being
unhappy with executive management and a slow bureaucratic structure at Blue Origin.
The most exciting drama is that some of Blue Origin's previous employees went to work
for competitors like SpaceX, virgin galactic, and other top firms in the space industry.
In April, it was announced that SpaceX was the only winner of NASA's human landing system
program, winning a $2.9 billion contract. Blue Origin protested, but the government
accountability office turned down the space company's complaint about NASA's decision.
Since blue origin is losing its best employees to NASA and one of its biggest competitors,
SpaceX. Will all these setbacks finally make blue origin give up, and perhaps file for bankruptcy?
Sadly Blue Origin is Shamefully Dying as BE 4 Failure Sinks Millions
of Dollars into the nowhere, click on the video on the screen to know more.