# Inventions Survive the Bubbles That Finance Them by Jeff Bezos > "What happens is speculators can lose money because they're investing in all of these things. But the inventions don't disappear when the bubble pops. So if you take the biotech bubble in the '90s, investors lost money, speculators in this new technology. Many of them lost money. The life-saving drugs that were made continued on and saved lives. If you look at all the fiber optic cable that got laid in the internet bubble, thousands of miles of fiber optic cable got laid. Many of the companies that laid that fiber optic cable got into financial trouble and the bubble popped and they went out of business. But the fiber optic cable didn't go away. We're still benefiting from it today." > **— Jeff Bezos**, *Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Interview and timestamped transcript:** [Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026](https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3008213/#t-584) — The transcript attributes the complete continuous passage to Bezos at 09:44. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] — preserves the full event chronology, source classification and surrounding context. The Reminder uses one complete continuous passage without brackets or ellipses. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Collection]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|Valley Roots]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Research index:** [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jeff Bezos|Jeff Bezos]] - [[wiki/Invention|Invention]] - [[wiki/Innovation|Innovation]] - [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "What happens is speculators can lose money because they're investing in all of these things. But the inventions don't disappear when the bubble pops. So if you take the biotech bubble in the '90s, investors lost money, speculators in this new technology. Many of them lost money. The life-saving drugs that were made continued on and saved lives. If you look at all the fiber optic cable that got laid in the internet bubble, thousands of miles of fiber optic cable got laid. Many of the companies that laid that fiber optic cable got into financial trouble and the bubble popped and they went out of business. But the fiber optic cable didn't go away. We're still benefiting from it today." — Jeff Bezos, Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jeff-bezos-inventions-survive-bubbles ```