Blue Origin round lifts Bezos to world’s second-richest person

The headline number is a private space valuation, not a liquid one, so the ranking it produces is a mark-to-model artifact as much as a market fact. What matters is that space is now clearing capital at valuations that reorder the top of the wealth table, alongside AI, which is why the same handful of founders keep trading places. Whether private space funding holds at this pace, and whether these valuations survive later rounds, is the open question.