Jeff Bezos is hiring Amazon's satellite engineers into Blue Origin

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Jeff Bezos is hiring Amazon's satellite engineers into Blue Origin — Sources: Billionaires.Africa

Jeff Bezos chairs Amazon and owns Blue Origin outright. His private space company has hired at least 47 engineers away from Amazon's satellite unit to build a satellite network that competes with it.

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Jeff Bezos is hiring Amazon's satellite engineers into Blue Origin

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