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Blue Origin welcome letter / founding memo
, subject: Blue Origin's founding philosophy and long-term approach, 2004
Jeff Bezos’s 800-word Blue Origin memo pairs a patient, step-by-step approach to space with ferocity.
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About this work
Bezos argues that Blue Origin should pursue its long horizon through small, meaningful increments, each creating useful intermediate results and the technical and organizational foundation for the next.
Why read it
Best if you want to see how a founder set a patient, step-by-step pace for a space company while also demanding ferocity.
Key themes
- Patience written into the founding plan
- Step by step, ferociously
Evidence and original sources
Source: official Founders episode — #180
This record is supported by 2 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire) — David describes Bezos's 800-word Blue Origin welcome letter as a founding document laying out a patient, step-by-step approach to space.