Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos with $124 Billion Fortune to Give Majority of Wealth to Charity & Fight Climate Change, Already Committed $10 Billion to Bezos Earth Fund
17th November 2022 | Hong Kong
Amazon founder & billionaire Jeff Bezos with $124 billion fortune has announced plans to give majority of his wealth to charity & to fight climate change. The plan was announced during an interview with CNN at Jeff Bezos residence in Washington DC (United States), alongside his partner (girlfriend) Lauren Sanchez. Jeff Bezos had committed $10 billion in the next 10 years to the Bezos Earth Fund, chaired by his partner Lauren Sanchez. Jeff Bezos: “The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way. It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates, hard-working teammates, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren is finding the same thing — that charity, philanthropy, is very similar … … There are a bunch of ways that I think you could do ineffective things, too.” In 2019, MacKenzie Scott and Jeff Bezos had divorced in one of the largest asset split ($150 billion to $200 billion fortune). In the same year 2019, MacKenzie Scott who had been an active philanthropist with more than $20 billion personal fortune in 2019, signed the Giving Pledge to donate majority of her wealth & assets. In 2022 September, MacKenzie Scott ($33 billion personal fortune) filed for divorce after 2 years of marriage to science teacher Dan Jewett.
“ Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos with $124 Billion Fortune to Give Majority of Wealth to Charity & Fight Climate Change, Already Committed $10 Billion to Bezos Earth Fund “
Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos with $216 Billion Combined Wealth Starts Spaceflight Tourism
23rd July 2021 – Billionaires Sir Richard Branson (UK) and Jeff Bezos (US) with $216 billion combined wealth, have become the first billionaires and tourists to travel to space on the start of human spaceflight tourism. On 20th July 2021 (Tuesday), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (Age 57) with $210 billion net worth, is one of 4 private citizens alongside his brother Mark Bezos to travel to space on New Shepard built by Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin in a 10 minutes and 10 seconds flight from Texas, United States. Earlier on 11th July 2021, founder of Virgin Airlines Sir Richard Branson (Age 70 on space flight) with $6 billion net worth, went on his spaceflight on his Virgin Galactic Unity spaceplane on a 1.5 hours flight from New Mexico, United States.
Blue Origin Space Travel Price: $28 Million
Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company Blue Origin had a winning auction price of $28 million for the first spaceflight ticket. The winner was not able to join the first spaceflight due to schedule conflicts, and was replaced by an 18-year-old student.
Virgin Galactic Space Travel Price: $250,000
Sir Richard Branson space flight company Virgin Galactic have 600 individuals who have paid deposits for tickets in the range of $200,000 to $250,000.
Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic:
“ I really hope that there will be millions of kids all over the world who will be captivated and inspired about the possibility of them going to space one day. “
Sir Richard Branson Space flight on Virgin Galactic:
Jeff Bezos Space flight on Blue Origin:
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