[58] Additionally, statements by the Trump administration, in favor of overturning the antitrust law known as the Paramount Decree, have been predicted to help Amazon acquire the Landmark Theaters chain.
[205], In 1992, Bezos was working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan when he met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle, who was a research associate at the firm; the couple married a year later. [203] During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported that Bezos's fortune had grown by $24bn, citing a surge in demand from households on lockdown shopping on Amazon. [215], On February 7, 2019, Bezos published an online essay in which he accused American Media, Inc. owner David Pecker of "extortion and blackmail" for threatening to publish intimate photos of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, if he did not stop his investigation into how his text messages and other photos had been leaked to the National Enquirer. If you would like to make a report under our whistle-blowing policy, this can be found here. [55] Amazon's share price fell by 9% in response to the President's negative comments; this reduced Bezos's personal wealth by $10.7 billion.
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[36] Bezos used the $54 million raised during the company's 1997 equity offering to finance aggressive acquisition of smaller competitors. [35] He warned many early investors that there was a 70% chance that Amazon would fail or go bankrupt.
[138] Instead of using PowerPoints, Bezos requires high-level employees to present information with six-page narratives.
[100] Bezos used Bezos Expeditions to fund several philanthropic projects, including an Innovation center at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry and the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Additional required amounts such as taxes, insurance, homeowner association dues, assessments, mortgage insurance premiums, flood insurance or other such required payments should also be considered. He received Germany's 2018 Axel Springer Award for Business Innovation and Social Responsibility. [118] His physical transformation has been compared to the transformation of Amazon; he is often referred to as the metonym of the company.