I'm wondering if he was the inspiration for Ted Faro in Horizon Zero Dawn
Faro seemed the usual stock technocrat villain from a Bond movie. Could be. Blue Origin's failings seem to be from being almost arrogant in rejoicing at their slow schedule "
Gradatim Ferociter" and hardly ever giving any kind of news of what they were up to. SpaceX on the other hand leads an exciting program with an unusual degree of transparency. And for a company that hasn't launched more than a few celebrities into suborbital space, as
@publiusr was saying, they really like lawsuits.
But all that is just the public side. Their initial plan seemed to be to take the lessons learned from one program into another.. so Goddard would lead to New Shepard. New Shep to New Glenn, New Glen to New Armstrong. Meanwhile buildnig their industrial park in space.
But the fuel and architecture for New Armstrong is nothing like New Glenn is supposed to be. So there is little that can be taken from that. In the meantime, they were picked to provide a first stage engine for ULA for the new Vulcan launch vehicle which is replacing Atlas V and Delta IV, instead of an Aerojet design that was a direct descendant of the Apollo program and which might have been ready, already.
But Blue Origin's BE-4 was picked and the cycle of delays keeps going. Delaying the Vulcan causes a lot of problems down the chain, especially since the Ukrainian invasion. There will be no more RD-181 (Russian) engines for the Atlas V once the final ones are used up and apart from one or two more Delta IV heavy launches, that vehicle is done, too. Cygnus, which supplies the space station, also relies on a choice of two launch vehicles which, again, rely on Russian engines, and so moving to Vulcan is vital.
It's not hard to imagine that those Vulcan BE-4 delays must also be slowing down Blue Origin's BE4 development. It was supposed to fly this year, but that does not seem likely right now.. As a Bond villain, or end of the world creator, Bezos isn't looking very good. I think, despite its motto, Blue Origin bit off more than it could chew, too early. Bezos can continue to throw money into that furnace ,though , and eventually B.O. could end up succeeding.
