Friedberg @ 00:29:16Wrong
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After his July 20, 2021 Blue Origin flight and transition to Amazon executive chairman, Jeff Bezos will return and publicly announce that he is becoming the CEO of Blue Origin and will work on it full time for the rest of his career.
My prediction is Bezos is going to come back and he's going to announce that he's going to be the CEO of Blue Origin. I think this is what he wants to do with the rest of his life.View on YouTube
Explanation
Available evidence shows Jeff Bezos has never become CEO of Blue Origin, nor announced that he would work on it full time for the rest of his career.
- In September 2023, Blue Origin announced that Bob Smith, then CEO, would step down and be replaced not by Bezos but by Dave Limp, an Amazon executive, as CEO of Blue Origin. Bezos is described as the company’s founder and funder, not its incoming CEO. (washingtonpost.com)
- Biographical and news sources list Dave Limp as the sitting CEO of Blue Origin as of 2024, with no indication that Bezos has held the CEO title at any point. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Separate reporting in 2025 notes that Bezos’ first return to an executive role since leaving the Amazon CEO job is as co‑CEO of the AI startup Project Prometheus, not of Blue Origin. (en.wikipedia.org)
Across major news outlets and reference sources, there is no public announcement of Bezos becoming Blue Origin’s CEO or declaring he will work on it full time for the rest of his career. Instead, Blue Origin’s CEO role has been held by Smith and then Limp, while Bezos has taken an executive role elsewhere. Therefore, Friedberg’s prediction did not come true.