Founding multiple big successful companies in nascent industries that had been starved of capital before is a unique AND big achievement.
Nobody cheers on Bezos because of Blue Origin. They praise him for building Amazon when e-commerce was still new (or when dot coms had gone out of favor).
Same with Musk. There are multiple major private space ventures now. Ever car company has a heavily funded EV division. When Musk started, EVs were considered a joke and private space tech had little to no capital.
Musk is unique because he put his money into industries no big money would touch before him.
I honestly think they would, if Blue Origin actually did anything worth cheering. Their best achievement so far is stalling ULA's Vulcan Centaur for years. By the time it flies it will most likely be utterly obsolete, because Blue Origin has fumbled the BE-4 severely. Vulcan Centaur was supposed to fly in 2019 but Blue Origin only delivered some engines about a few weeks ago. They're years late and it's hurting ULA badly. Because of Blue Origin, SpaceX's Starship will probably fly before Vulcan Centaur. Vulcan Centaur is meant to be a HLV marginally more performant than Falcon 9, but Starship should wipe the floor with both.
Nobody cheers on Bezos because of Blue Origin. They praise him for building Amazon when e-commerce was still new (or when dot coms had gone out of favor).
Same with Musk. There are multiple major private space ventures now. Ever car company has a heavily funded EV division. When Musk started, EVs were considered a joke and private space tech had little to no capital.
Musk is unique because he put his money into industries no big money would touch before him.