Jeff Bezos may be the richest man in the world, he is known to be rather niggard. Yet the CEO of Amazon and his wife MacKenzie can certainly spend millions on certain things. Not to a dishwasher: Bezos does the dishes every evening. He thinks that is "sexy".
The feet on the ground, that is the motto of Jeff Bezos (54), whose fortune is now hovering somewhere above 100 billion dollars (85 billion euros). Two examples of that modesty. Until 2013 MacKenzie Bezos drove their four children daily to school in a regular Honda Accord. And at Bezos' office there would still be a door with trestles underneath that served as a table in the humble beginnings of his career.
But the couple can also throw money if some wishes have to be fulfilled. In 2015, according to The Sun , they would have spent around 55 million euros on flights with a private jet. Among other things for their beloved trips to Rome. Jeff and MacKenzie, moreover, are not exactly modest. They involve an estate of more than 20 million euros in Medina near Seattle in the state of Washington, where Bill Gates is their neighbor. According to Business Insider , Bezos is the 25th largest landowner in the US. He holds luxurious millions of draws everywhere in America.
Another thing that may cost a penny: the personal security of Jeff Bezos. Fortune calculated that this amounted to 1.25 million euro in 2016, a lot more than Bezos' colleagues with similar positions.
Jeff Bezos does not let his wife regularly surprise with clothing and jewelry. Then he suddenly calls her to ask about certain sizes of MacKenzie, he told Vogue : "She asks: 'why' and then I say: 'no business!' She loves it. "
Bezos is not the big philanthropist, where among others Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are very praised. Although Bezos is not insensitive to charities either. In 2012, there were three million for gay marriage and he donated even larger amounts of cancer research. He also runs his own Foundation, run by his parents, which also attracts tens of thousands of dollars.
Danny Hillis, who has been friends with Jeff Bezos for a long time, told Vogue that the Bezos are "such a normal, close-knit family" that "almost becomes abnormal". Every morning they eat a healthy breakfast together. That is why the CEO avoids early meetings in the morning. And he does the dishes daily. "I am convinced that this is the sexiest thing I do," he once said to the CEO of Business Insider , Henry Blodget.
Jeff and MacKenzie met when they both worked in New York for the investment group DE Shaw. MacKenzie asked him to have lunch and three months later they were engaged. They were already married after only half a year. Another year later they resigned and moved to Seattle to establish Amazon. In the beginning MacKenzie did the accounting. Today Amazon, along with the likes of Apple, is in the race to be the first company of one trillion dollars.
Jeff Bezos graduated from the famous Princeton as an industrial engineer and computer scientist. MacKenzie also went to Princeton and obtained her language diploma in 1992. She was taught by writer and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who called MacKenzie "one of the best students ever in my creative writing course". In 2005, MacKenzie Bezos debuted with the novel The Testing of Luther Albright . Traps followed eight years later . In 2014 she founded Bystander Revolution , an organization against bullying, of which she is still the director.
In 2000, Bezos launched its space company Blue Origin and in 2013 he bought the Washington Post . But it all started with Amazon in 1994, originally an online bookstore, operating from the garage of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos. And they will never forget that.
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