{"id":18970,"date":"2017-05-05T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jeff-bezos-fuels-blue-origin-space-venture-with-941-million-amazon-stock-sale\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:02:00","slug":"jeff-bezos-fuels-blue-origin-space-venture-with-941-million-amazon-stock-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jeff-bezos-fuels-blue-origin-space-venture-with-941-million-amazon-stock-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos fuels Blue Origin space venture with $941 million Amazon stock sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture is sure to benefit from his&nbsp;record-high $941 million selloff of Amazon shares. The sale, executed this week and reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, represents just a thin slice of the Amazon founder\u2019s estimated $80 billion net worth. But it meshes with his comment&nbsp;last month at a Colorado space conference that he sells&nbsp;\u201cabout a billion dollars a year of Amazon stock, and I use it to invest in Blue Origin.\u201d Blue Origin\u2019s share of the proceeds is likely to go toward testing its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, developing the BE-4 rocket engine, building a&nbsp;rocket production facility in Florida \u2013 and keeping the lights on at the company\u2019s headquarters in Kent, Wash. The SEC filing also shows that Bezos donated about $1 million worth of his stock to a non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: bottom; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"fdabd37cb2cc87d4b\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" data-testid=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" title=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.3\/plugins\/video.php?allowfullscreen=true&amp;app_id=249643311490&amp;channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Dff2e42fc8b46eb739%26domain%3Dwww.geekwire.com%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.geekwire.com%252Ff74497756f45a35c9%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=800&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgeekwire%2Fvideos%2F1498700776820330%2F&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" style=\"border: none; visibility: visible; width: 800px; height: 450px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture is sure to benefit from his&nbsp;record-high $941 million selloff of Amazon shares. The sale, executed this week and reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, represents just a thin slice of the Amazon founder\u2019s estimated $80 billion net worth. But it meshes with his comment&nbsp;last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275,509,1046],"class_list":["post-18970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-blue-origin","tag-jeff-bezos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}