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He built a $12 billion rocket company without a college degree—but has no desire to go to space: It wouldn't ‘be very enjoyable'

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Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has no plans to join Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson the list of space-traveling billionaires, he says. Here’s why.

He built a $12 billion rocket company without a college degree—but has no desire to go to space: It wouldn't ‘be very enjoyable'CEO Peter Beck is perfectly content watching the rockets his company builds reach the heavens while his feet remain firmly planted on Earth.

"I would just be thinking of all the safety factors on the valves and the structures that are beneath me," says Beck."So I don't think it would be very enjoyable at all ... There's a rare group of people that can do that, and I'm not one of them, unfortunately." Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly

"You have to take risks," he says."If you take no risk, there's no reward ... you end up as a traditional, dinosaur kind of player if you want to remove every last percentage of risk."

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