Amazon.com founder buys ranch for his aerospace company

By at 2:13 pm Thursday, Jan 13

"Bezos' Seattle-based Blue Origin suborbital space venture is starting the process to build an aerospace testing and operations center on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre spread that the 41-year-old billionaire purchased north of Van Horn, Texas."

Blue Origin is hiring, by the way. On its jobs page, it lists its hiring criteria:

1. You must have a genuine passion for space. Without passion, you will find what we're trying to do too difficult. There are much easier jobs.

2. You must want to work in a small company.

3. We are building real hardware -- not PowerPoint presentations. This must excite you. You must be a builder.

(Neal Stephenson works there part time.) It probably gets about 10,000 resumes a day. Link

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