Thx. They did their best work quite a long while ago, producing that methane-burning engine used in the New Shepard ‘hopper’ craft, but they never committed to making it fully operational to send tourists up to space and back until it had flown at least 15 times over a period of years. Scaling up that engine has been slow going, and it’s coming in (supposedly) years behind schedule.
Bezos built Amazon with lots and lots of other people’s money over years and years before it became profitable. He’s probably committed some of his fortune to Blue Origin (or “Sue Origin” as it’s been called), but it’s apparent that he’s managed to get funded again with other people’s money.
We went to the NASA visitor center tours at Kennedy a few years ago. BO was right across the parking lot. Lots of fancy buildings and money being spent. The NASA visitor center employees stated NASA hated SpaceX and was counting on BO and Boeing. Going inside, SpaceX had some representation, but BO and Boeing had much greater representation and fanfare.
P.S. SpaceX was on the way to the visitor’s center but their building showed activity and not loads of fancy money being spent; minimalist but functional.