The Amazon founder, who has a net worth north of $124 billion, joins a growing list of billionaires who have made similar pledges.
. In an interview with CNN’s Chloe Melas, the world’s fourth-richest man said that he and his partner,“And the hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way,” he said in the interview from his D.C. home. “It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren is finding the same thing — that philanthropy is very similar.
in 2019, has become a prominent philanthropist. Two days after Bezos’s CNN interview, Scott said she had given almost $2 billion in donations over the past seven months. The money went to 343 organizations that help “people from underserved communities,” Scott wrote in a Monday that listed all the groups. It’s the second philanthropic announcement this year from Scott, following news in March that she had given $3.8 billion to 465 nonprofits over the previous nine months.Bezos, meanwhile, has faced pushback in the past for not giving away more of his fortune. But the entrepreneur has seemingly been more focused on donating in recent years, including
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