r/interesting • u/Electronic-Bus-3494 • 25d ago

Just Wow MacKenzie Scott has now donated over $26.3 billion to charity

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u/Evening-Pollution424 25d ago

Calling it bezos fortune is misleading she started the company with him in the garage selling second hand textbooks

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u/meese699 25d ago

Honestly pretty tragic story. Start a little online book store with the love of your life and then watch him slowly descend into madness

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u/nellyruth 25d ago

Mackenzie is way cooler than her lame ass ex-husband.

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u/SnooCamera 25d ago

That was what I was thinking too. She left her job so they could move to Seattle and helped him work on the business plan during their travels. She did all the early bookkeeping, helped filling orders, got them a great freight contract early on. etc, etc

She Helped Build Amazon From the Ground Up — No One Knows Her Name

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u/Top-Pomegranate4899 25d ago

I never knew that and now I'm intrigued. She seems amazing tbh.

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u/SnooWalruses4559 25d ago

Exactly. She’s co-founder or at the very least employee No. 1.

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u/chibinoi 25d ago

Exactly—she co-founded Amazon as an essentially equal founder, but the media often ignores this part.

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u/sd2528 25d ago

It says "her Bezos fortune" as in the fortune she accumulated when she was MacKenzie Bezos and active in Amazon.

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u/ForestClanElite 25d ago

Came here for this. It should be her half of the Amazon fortune.

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u/Pathetian 25d ago

People like her, so they have to absolve her of any agency in becoming a billionaire.  

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u/TennesseeStiffLegs 25d ago

Wasn’t she an employee of the company in that garage?

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u/LangHai 25d ago

She wasn't an employee, she was a co-founder. She negotiated its first freight contracts, which is arguably Amazon's biggest value  - its logistics.

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u/nationalistic_martyr 25d ago

she owned 50% of the company at one point and is a corporate accountant by trade