Jeff has been very kind to strangers like moi as in 2002 he was happy to exchange several Emails about Amazon and My publisher, Double Dragon 🐉
How many CEOs would ever bother with bohemian strangers even replying let along share their personal stories with them in a series of chain email messages ... I thought that he was librarian and he corrected me as Amazon Dewey Classification System was created by a stockbroker who loved Books and Libraries .
I am sure one day there will be Bezos Library in the US - where a copy of Cold River will sit on the shelves 😎 or else
Jeff Bezos To Washington: 'My Dad's Name Is Miguel. He Adopted Me When I Was 4'
For Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, it will be his first appearance before Congress. He begins his prepared remarks with a personal story, as he often does in public appearances:
MacKenzie Scott—the writer and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, now going by her middle name—said in a Medium post on Tuesday that she has donated $1.7 billion to charitable causes over the past year.
After her divorce in 2019, Scott signed the Giving Pledge, a commitment among the wealthy to give away a significant portion of their money over their lifetimes. Scott’s promise was to distribute at least half of her approximately $35 billion fortune.
Along with the announcement of the $1.7 billion in donations, Scott offered a frank reflection on the societal systems that have allowed her to accrue such wealth; she is the world’s second-richest woman, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
“There’s no question in my mind that anyone’s personal wealth is the product of a collective effort, and of social structures which present opportunities to some people, and obstacles to countless others,” she wrote.
She added: “I began work to complete my pledge with the belief that my life had yielded two assets that could be of particular value to others: the money these systems helped deliver to me, and a conviction that people who have experience with inequities are the ones best equipped to design solutions.”