The Space Race among tech entrepreneurs has been soaring lately, especially with the recent buzz around SpaceX. But for Amazon's founder and CEO, the next frontier may have to wait.
A spacecraft made by Jeff Bezos' aerospace venture, Blue Origin, failed during a test launch last year. But his cosmic love for space doesn't just lend itself to new outer-space ventures: Bezos, whose net worth is around $20 billion, announced recently that he had hired a team and found the engines that were used to launch the Apollo 11 in 1969.
You don't have to work at Oracle or Apple to be among the top-paid executives in the technology industry, but it helps.
