Jeff Bezos wants to see ‘A Mark Zuckerberg of space’

NEW YORK: When you buy something on Amazon, Jeff Bezos says you are funding, in part, an audacious plan to populate the solar system with one trillion people.

As a step toward getting scores of humans to live and work and space, Bezos — the founder of Amazon and the rocket company Blue Origin — wants to enable “a Mark Zuckerberg of space” to exist. Bezos, who liquidates about $1 billion of stock a year to fund Blue Origin, discussed that vision during a private lecture on February 19 at the Yale Club in New York City. “Every time you buy shoes, you’re helping fund Blue Origin, so thank you. I appreciate it very much,” Bezos said at the event.