Browsing: Jeff Bezos
Before MacKenzie Scott published her first novel or helped shape Amazon in its early days as an online book seller,…
Greg Hart: Coursera CEO on the lessons he learned from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy
In 1997, the day before Greg Hart joined Amazon, he was summoned to a meeting—on a Sunday—with its founder, Jeff…
After pouring $450 million into Florida real estate, Larry Ellison plans to lure the ultra-rich to an exclusive town just minutes from Mar-a-Lago
Known for his tech feats as cofounder and chief technology officer of Oracle, in South Florida, Larry Ellison is instead…
‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon
Today, Amazon’s market cap is hovering around $2.38 trillion, and founder Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest men,…
Jamie Dimon taps Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, and Jim Farley for $1.5T national-security initiative
Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase just unveiled a list of business leaders and retired government officials that will make up a…
Meet the world’s ‘super-billionaires’—they’re worth over $4 trillion, and two-thirds live in the U.S.
As the wealth gap continues to widen, more people are being propelled into the ultra-rich billionaire class—but there’s even another…
MacKenzie Scott has just given away $17 million to Oklahoma’s oldest public community college, where 80% of its students receive financial aid
The billionaire philanthropist’s eye-watering gift was the single largest contribution in the college’s history, which dates back to 1901, the…
Jeff Bezos’ most expensive investment is a $500 million custom superyacht that’s the largest in the world
Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. The Amazon founder, who is worth an estimated $245 billion,…
Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.…
Lyft CEO initially turned down the top job and called it a ‘ridiculous’ idea—a conversation with his wife on Valentine’s Day changed his mind
Many professionals would jump at the idea of helming a billion-dollar company—after all, the top job comes with power, prestige,…












