Jeff Bezos is known for being the owner of amazon and one of the richest people in the world. He announced last Monday, the 14th, that he will donate most of his $124 billion fortune during his lifetime. In doing so, Bezos will join a list of billionaire philanthropists that includes the likes of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and David Velez.
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He is currently fourth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index's list of the richest men in the world, second only to GautamAdani, an infrastructure tycoon in India ($138 billion), Bernard Arnault of LVMH ($160 billion) and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, who is worth $200 billion.
Jeff Bezos announces millionaire donation
The billionaire made this announcement alongside his current girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, during an interview with CNN. It is worth remembering that Bezos was married for 25 years to MacKenzie Scott and they separated in 2019. Now he said he is looking for ways to distribute these amounts in the form of grants to make a certain kind of impact, as there are ways to do this inefficiently.
“It's not easy,” says the billionaire. “Ramp up to amazon also it was not easy.demanded a lot of hard work and very smart people.I It is Laurenwe arefiguring out that philanthropy is very similar.It's not easy.É very difficult.” added Bezos.
The announcement about the donations in question comes three years after his ex-wife signed the Giving Pledge, which is a campaign created by Warren Buffett and Bill & Melinda Gates, in order to get other billionaires around the world to donate their accumulated fortunes while still alive.
MacKenzie Scott and her donations
Since signing the Giving Pledge, MacKenzie Scott has already donated US$ 12 billion, half of her fortune, to different types of projects and causes, including some Brazilian ones, such as the Vector Brazil and TheGenerating Hawks.
Bezos was seen as one of the main targets of criticism for not joining the movement in recent years, but he donated a substantial amount in 2020 to fight climate change through the Bezos Earth Fund and also donated $2 billion to homeless families and to help them start new schools children.
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