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☆ Jeff Bezos' fiancée did a Vogue photoshoot inside the '10,000 Year Clock' — here's what the structure built beneath a mountain is all about
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, posed inside the 10,000 Year Clock in a photoshoot by Vogue. AdvertisementA Vogue feature of Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, featured an iconic photoshoot of the couple in Western Texas. It's located inside a mountain in the Western Texas desert that's part of the Sierra Diablo Mountain Range. Bezos began funding the clock project back in 2011. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez got engaged in May after dating for about four years.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Bezos, Danny Hillis, —, Sanchez, intriguingly, Mackenzie Scott Organizations: Vogue, Long Now, Service, Origin, Fox Locations: Western Texas, Van Horn , Texas, Los Angeles

☆ Confessions of a startup founder's wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

I wished I had told Kyle that I would understand if he wanted to quit. That's as apt a description of Kyle's startup as it is of our relationship. I'm not sure Kyle has found as many perks to being a startup founder married to a startup reporter. Now Kyle's startup has pivoted a third time. The truth is, I don't know if Kyle's startup will make it.

Persons: Kyle, Kyle shrugged, pang, I'd, hadn't, Scott Belsky, It's, messier, I've, he'd, Jillian, Chris Dixon, Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, Schulze, TikTok, Josh Cochran, Marc Andreessen, I'm, He'd, Eric Paley, Steve Jobs, —, Playbyte, he's, Rohan Seth, Paul Davison, Steve Huffman, hasn't, Instagram, it's, Zelda, That's, cradling, Melia Russell Organizations: Apple Watch, Steam, Francisco's Mission, University of California, TechCrunch, White House, YouTube, Labor Locations: Champagne, Francisco's, Berkeley, San Francisco, New York, America, Playbyte, Kyle, Boston, Bay, sobs

☆ Lauren Sanchez says she was crying and holding Jeff Bezos' mother during Blue Origin's first manned spaceflight
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lauren Sanchez said she was crying and holding Jeff Bezos' mom during Blue Origin's first manned spaceflight. Bezos was on the Blue Origin's spaceflight, which took place in 2021. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2021, Blue Origin completed its first manned spaceflight. "They were cracking jokes in the capsule, while I'm literally crying, holding his mother," Sanchez told Vogue's Chloe Malle about the launch. They were engraved with Blue Origin's motto "Gradatim Ferociter" — "step by step, ferociously."

Persons: Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Blue, Bezos, Sanchez, —, I'm, Vogue's Chloe Malle, MacKenzie Scott, Mark, Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Vogue, — Sanchez Organizations: Service, Origin, Vogue, National Enquirer, Wall Street Locations: Dutch

☆ Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, recounts the story of his proposal: 'When he opened the box, I think I blacked out a bit'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have been engaged for months. "When he opened the box, I think I blacked out a bit," Sanchez told Vogue. AdvertisementAdvertisementJeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez —your favorite tech titan-helicopter pilot power couple — got engaged months ago, and now they're sharing the story of how it happened. "When he opened the box, I think I blacked out a bit," she told Vogue. Sanchez told Vogue she's "looking forward to being Mrs.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Sanchez, —, Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, Vogue Organizations: Amazon, Vogue, Service, National Enquirer, Fund

That was the vision of Joan Kroc, billionaire philanthropist and heiress to the McDonald’s fortune of her husband, Ray. And today, 20 years later, 26 grand, state-of-the-art Kroc centers have opened in places as varied as Ashland, Ohio; Guayama, Puerto Rico; and Quincy, Illinois. Half was to be earmarked for the construction of recreation centers, with the other half deposited into endowments to support them. In the two decades since Kroc’s bequest, quantifying the precise impact on all of the communities served by the Kroc centers is difficult. She explained that Joan Kroc meant for the place to be accessible to all — that beauty was part of her plan.

Persons: Joan Kroc, Ray, Army didn’t, Joan Kroc’s, MacKenzie Scott, Kroc, revved, she’d, Ronald McDonald, MacKenzie, Phil Buchanan, Scott, ”, “, that’s, Angelia Grandberry, Grandberry, Lisa Napoli, Joan Organizations: Salvation Army, Phoenix Kroc, Army, baseball’s San Diego Padres, San, National Hockey League, Catholic, Notre Dame, University of San, Ronald McDonald House Charities, National Public Radio, Center, Coast Kroc, Associated Press Locations: Ashland , Ohio, Puerto Rico, Quincy , Illinois, Boston, Augusta , Georgia, San Francisco, U.S, Southern California, baseball’s, St, Paul , Minnesota, San Diego, University of San Diego, Biloxi , Mississippi

Summer Science Program, a nonprofit with an annual budget of about $2 million, sent about 200 high school juniors to six-week intensive research courses at universities this year. Summer Science Program learned last year that one of its alumni, Franklin Antonio, a co-founder of chipmaker Qualcomm, had granted the organization 20% of his estate, said CEO Frank Steslow. The program intends to double the number of students enrolled next summer to more than 400 and increased its annual budget to over $7 million. Summer Science Program has already received a first payment of $65 million, and the funds are unrestricted. But he added, “it seems unusual at first until you realize that the organization itself is almost like a gift restriction, because they’re very specific in what they do,” referring to Summer Science Program.

Persons: Franklin Antonio, Frank Steslow, ” Steslow, Antonio, Steslow, MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos, Scott, Gabrielle Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Russell James, ” James, James, Joan B Organizations: Science, Science Program, Qualcomm, Indiana University ,, Indiana University , Bloomington , New Mexico State University, Las, University of Colorado, Panorama, Global's, Texas Tech University, Salvation Army, National Public, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Indiana University , Bloomington , New, Las Cruces, University of Colorado Boulder

☆ Elon Musk was upset Bezos did not invite him to visit Blue Origin's factory, after Bezos toured SpaceX in 2004, a new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Musk's SpaceX and Bezos' Blue Origin have been one-upping each other in a billionaire space race. A new biography of Musk says he was upset with Bezos for not receiving a reciprocal invite to tour Blue Origin's factory after Bezos toured SpaceX. After that, Bezos sent Musk an invite, and the pair shared a dinner that seemingly did not go over well. In 2020, SpaceX completed its first manned spaceflight, while Blue Origin did the same — with Jeff Bezos on board — in 2021. After the tour, Musk sent a "curt" email to Bezos about his annoyance over not having been reciprocally invited to see Blue Origin's factory, per Isaacson.

Persons: Musk, Bezos, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, curt, Isaacson, MacKenzie Scott, Justine Musk, Jeff Organizations: SpaceX, Service, Amazon, Bloomberg, NASA, Financial Times Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Jeff Bezos' hot yacht summer with fiancée continues in Croatia with Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, and Usher
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The pair was photographed walking and sailing with A-listers Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, and Usher. Weeks earlier, the couple hosted a lavish engagement party on Bezos' $500 million yacht. Bezos and Sanchez were recently seen enjoying the summer weather with Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, and Usher, according to photos published in People. Bezos, Sanchez, Perry, Bloom, and Usher were photographed walking around Dubrovnik, Croatia, according to the report, a coastal city known for being a filming location for "Game of Thrones." Just weeks ago, the couple hosted an engagement party on Bezos' $500 million yacht in Italy, according to Page Six.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Usher, Weeks, Bezos, Sanchez, Perry, Bloom, it's, Lil Nas X, Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kris Jenner, Mackenzie Scott Bezos Organizations: MEGA, Sanchez's, Amazon, Bezos Locations: Croatia, Europe, Dubrovnik, Portofino, Italy

☆ Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's superyacht engagement party reportedly included business titans and celebs, from Bill Gates and his girlfriend to Leonardo DiCaprio
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some big names attended, including Bill Gates, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Kris Jenner. The party took place on Bezos' $500 million yacht, which first set sail in February. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez celebrated their engagement last week — and their party aboard the Amazon cofounder's $500 million superyacht attracted some big names. Attendees included Kris Jenner, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, and fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, according to photos on Sanchez's Instagram. Bezos and Sanchez have been spending lots of time on their $500 million yacht, which first hit the seas in February.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Bill Gates, Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Kris Jenner, Sarah Staudinger, Instagram, Paula Hurd, Page, Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's, Ari Emanuel, Staudinger, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bezos, DiCaprio, Sanchez, Mackenzie Scott Organizations: Morning, Black Ops Aviation, Good Locations: Positano, Italy

☆ Bill Miller, who once beat the market for 15 straight years, redefines value investing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Miller, the value investor known for once beating the market for 15 years in a row, is also well recognized as an early investor in bitcoin and Amazon . Miller made his name by running the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust, which beat the S & P 500 every year from 1991 to 2005. He left Legg Mason to found Miller Value Partners in 2012 after the fund suffered steep losses and an exodus of assets during the financial crisis. Samantha McLemore, Miller's longtime co-manager, will assume management of Miller Opportunity Trust through her firm Patient Capital. His eldest son, Bill Miller IV, will become the lead manager for the Miller Income Fund.

Persons: Bill Miller, Miller, Legg Mason, Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, bitcoin, who's, Samantha McLemore, Miller's, Bill Miller IV Organizations: Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust, Miller Value Partners, Amazon, Opportunity Trust, Morningstar, Delta Air Lines, Cruise Line, Big Tech, Miller Opportunity Trust, Capital, Miller Income Fund Locations: bitcoin

☆ Jeff Bezos is ripped now. Here's how the Amazon founder went from scrawny to brawny — even though he still cheats with pancakes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has had a "glo-up" in recent years since stepping back from the company. He went from eating a tin of biscuits for breakfast every morning to putting in hours in the gym. Jeff Bezos was a pretty scrawny guy when he founded Amazon in 1994. She said that Bezos "stole" her personal trainer, Wes Okerson, who has also trained celebrities like Tom Cruise and Gerard Butler. Beyond his personal diet and fitness regimen Bezos has reportedly also invested in anti-aging research company Altos Labs.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Sanchez, Wes Okerson, Tom Cruise, Gerard Butler, Jeff, Bezos, Bezos's, MacKenzie Scott, Betty Crocker Organizations: Amazon, Wall Street, Pillsbury, Altos Labs

☆ Twitter is rebranding to X. Here are 5 more tech companies that controversially changed their names or faced backlash.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here are five more tech companies which changed their names — some controversially, and others leading to success. From The Facebook to Facebook, then MetaMark Zuckerberg at Harvard University, three months after The Facebook was created. But the business plan was first written for a company called Cadabra, as in a magician's "Abracadabra." Before Twitter became X, X.com became PayPalPeter Thiel, left, and Elon Musk, right, hold VISA credit cards branded with the X.com company logo on October 20, 2000. Paul Sakuma/APElon Musk cofounded the online payment company X.com in 1999 before it merged with Peter Thiel's Confinity a year later.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Rick Friedman, Sean Parker, Justin Timberlake, Zuckerberg, that's, Frances Haugen, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Martin Magunia, Brin, Sundar Pichai, Mike Krieger, Kevin Systrom, Stephen Chernin Instagram, Andreessen Horowitz, Krieger, Systrom, Instagram, Jeff Bezos, Evan Agostini, —, Bezos, Mackenzie Scott, X.com, PayPal Peter Thiel, Paul Sakuma, AP Elon Musk, Peter Thiel's Confinity, Jimmy Soni's, Thiel, Walter Isaacson Organizations: Twitter, PayPal, Morning, Facebook, Harvard University, Meta, VR, Reality Labs, Google, Getty, Stanford, Microsoft, REUTERS, Baseline Ventures, Stanford University, Inc, Amazon, AP Elon, eBay Locations: Burbn

☆ Jeff Bezos is ripped now. Here's how the Amazon founder went from scrawny to brawny.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has had a "glo-up" in recent years since stepping back from the company. He went from eating a tin of biscuits for breakfast every morning to putting in hours in the gym. With help from celebrity personal trainer Wes Okerson, Bezos is more ripped than ever. Jeff Bezos was a pretty scrawny guy when he founded Amazon in 1994. She told The Wall Street Journal in January that Bezos "stole" her personal trainer, Wes Okerson, who's also trained Tom Cruise and Gerard Butler.

CNN —Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sánchez are engaged, a source close to the couple tells CNN. No additional details about the proposal or pending wedding plans were immediately available. Bezos and Sánchez, a former broadcast journalist and now philanthropist, first went public with their relationship in 2019. Since Bezos and Sánchez began dating, they have kept details of their lives together mostly private outside of being photographed at various events. Sánchez has three children from previous relationships, and was married to Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell for 13 years before finalizing their divorce in 2019.

☆ Moderna's billionaire CEO draws criticism for earning nearly $400 million in stock options last year, and then getting a raise on top of it
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

French businessman Stéphane Bancel made $393 million in stock options in 2022, according to securities filings. Bancel, 50, also owns stocks valued around at least $2.8 billion, and received a 50% raise from 2021 to 2022. Moderna's chief executive officer Stéphane Bancel raked in about $393 million in 2022 thanks to stock options, and then received a raise on top of it — compensation that's giving some analysts pause. In addition to exercising his stock options in 2022, 50-year-old Bancel earned a $1.5 million salary — a 50% jump from 2021, according to securities filings from March. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's pay dropped from $212 million in 2021 to $1.3 million in 2022 due to receiving any stock awards.

☆ Things are pretty grim in real estate, but that could be a good thing for proptech startups in the long run
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Today, we've got stories on Deutsche Bank's tumbling shares, some bad news for Block, and why Gen Z might be in trouble. Of the many casualties of 2022, startups focusing on the real-estate market were some of the biggest. As the real-estate market dried up, thanks to rising interest rates, these companies that were meant to upend the industry through tech and innovation suddenly took a backseat. And while current conditions aren't ideal for proptech startups, that could actually benefit them in the long run. Click here to check out 26 of the hottest proptech startups set to take off in 2023.

☆ Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Beth Galetti, the company's HR head, formally responded to a letter that gathered ~30,000 employee signatures. Galetti wrote in her email that Amazon's guiding principle is to "make our customers' lives better and easier every day." My colleague Eugene Kim obtained Galetti's full email and walks us through how Amazon employees feel about the response. In other news:MSCHF's Tax Heaven 3000 dating simulator is supposed to help you prepare your 2022 US federal tax return. Carta offers popular software to help employees manage their equity.

☆ MacKenzie Scott wants to know why she should give your nonprofit a $1 million donation from a $250 million pot of cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

MacKenzie Scott launched a $250 million "open call" for nonprofits. She plans to make 250 donations of $1 million apiece through her organization, Yield Giving. However, Scott's charity is now asking nonprofits to tell them why they should get a $1 million donation from a $250 million pot of cash. Jeff Bezos's ex-wife says the "open call" will support 250 "organizations making positive change in their communities." "So there are three big headlines here in my heart: community changemakers can nominate themselves.

☆ Jeff Bezos' partner Lauren Sánchez talked about being rejected as flight attendant because of her weight and becoming a pilot instead
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Media personality Lauren Sánchez has been publically dating billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos since 2019. Sánchez was also married to her former spouse, Patrick Whitesell, the executive chairman at William Morris Endeavor, at the time. "This is one of the only places I feel entirely in control," Sánchez told the outlet. "I don't know why more women don't do it," she told The Journal. "It's going to be women who are making a difference in the world and who are impactful and have a message to send,'" Sánchez told The Journal.

☆ Jeff Bezos' girlfriend said he gave her a 'master class' in management and running meetings: 'You're the boss. You talk last.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lauren Sánchez says Jeff Bezos gives her a "master class" in management and meetings every day. Sánchez told The Wall Street Journal his best advice was to let others speak first. Sánchez said that the best business advice Bezos has given her was to avoid talking too soon in meetings. You let everyone else talk so that they don't get swayed by your opinion,'" Sánchez told the publication. Bezos' business advice echoes the sentiments of experts.

☆ Amazon is shutting down its charity program amid massive companywide layoffs, claiming its 'ability to have an impact was often spread too thin'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon announced that it would "wind down" its AmazonSmile program in February. "After almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped," the email read. "With so many eligible organizations — more than 1 million globally — our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin." Amazon plans to fully close the program by February 20 and focus its philanthropic efforts elsewhere, per the email. Through the program, Amazon shoppers could visit smile.amazon.com allocate 0.5% of their purchase to a participating organization of their choice for no extra charge.

☆ MacKenzie Scott unveils website detailing her $14 billion in donations – search to see where she's given in your neighborhood
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott's Yield Giving website is now live. Yield Giving says it plans to offer an online application for organizations to apply for a donation. Yield Giving includes specifics on her $14 billion in donations to more than 1,600 organizations going back to 2019. On its homepage is an explanation of the name Yield Giving. Although she's considered one of the richest women in the world with a net worth over $20 billion, Scott has pledged to give away the majority of her fortune.

☆ Zelenskyy and the Spirit of Ukraine win Time’s 2022 Person of the Year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the spirit of Ukraine have been named Time’s 2022 Person of the Year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But the answer as to why he did it was simple: “It’s the people.”“My security was 100% against it,” Zelenskyy told Time during the trip to Kherson. “Zelenskyy gives me confidence,” a 35-year-old woman identified as Natasha in Ukraine told TODAY. In addition to Zelenskyy, Felsenthal revealed the women of Iran as 2022’s Heroes of the Year.

☆ This non-profit has raised over $10 million to support Indigenous women entrepreneurs: 'It's up to us to close the racial wealth gap'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here's how one non-profit, Native Women Lead, is enabling Indigenous women's economic mobility:'It's up to use to close the racial wealth gap'Native Women Lead was founded in 2017 by eight Native American women entrepreneurs: Jaime Gloshay, Kalika Davis, Lisa Foreman, Kim Gleason, Vanessa Roanhorse, Alicia Ortega, Stephine Poston and Jaclyn Roessel. That conversation inspired the creation of Native Women Lead, an Albuquerque-based non-profit that aims to help Indigenous women entrepreneurs across the world access the capital, mentors, financial education and support needed to thrive in their careers and narrow the wealth gap. To date, Native Women Lead has provided about $500,000 to 65 Indigenous women entrepreneurs through the two funds, partnering with credit unions and investing firms such as Nusenda Credit Union and ImpactAssets to connect entrepreneurs with capital. While closing the wealth gap might start with funding opportunities, Native Women Lead views wealth as "more than just revenue or profits," Stephine Poston, one of the group's co-founders, says. Keeping this in mind, Native Women Lead offers wellness-focused retreats for Indigenous women as well as fireside chats on self-care practices, healing from trauma and other mental health topics.

☆ MacKenzie Scott says she's given away almost $2 billion this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

MacKenzie Scott has donated $2 billion to charities this year, per her most recent Medium post. With a net worth of $26 billion, she's become one of the world's most generous billionaires. The 52-year-old philanthropist and former wife of Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $28 billion, according to Forbes. The funds donated by Scott this year are in addition to the $12.5 billion she's given away since signing up to the Giving Pledge. On November 14, Scott wrote a blog post on Medium outlining her most recent donations.

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