Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't think Elon Musk should colonise Mars

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said he wants to use his vast wealth to build the infrastructure needed to make space accessible for startups, rather than simply sending humans to Mars. Speaking at a private event at the Yale Club in New York, Bezos revealed that he considered his space company Blue Origin to be "the most important work" that he does. But such work is only possible by liquidating $1 billion of Amazon stock each year to bankroll it. Other space startups, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, require similar funding from their billionaire backers due to the high barriers of entry into the space industry. Bezos said space startups are currently unable to flourish in the same way that Amazon and Facebook did because the infrastructure that facilitated such tech firms does not yet exist for space.