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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, is worth $90.6 billion, making him the richest person in the world. With his wife Mackenzie, he is 24 years old. They met in 1993 at the investment firm DE Shaw. She was an analyst, he was a vice president. Interviewed by Mackenzie Jeff: “I consider my wife resourceful, smart, intelligent and sexy, but I was lucky that I saw her resume before I saw her - I knew her scores on the SAT (examination to determine academic abilities. - Approx. edition),” he said in an interview with Vogue.
In the office, they worked next door: “All day I heard his incredible laugh,” Mackenzie told Vogue. How could you not fall in love here? Jeff, on the other hand, always wanted to marry a resourceful girl: "No one knows what you mean when you say:" I'm looking for a resourceful girl, "he told Wired. If I tell anyone that I need a girl who can get me out of prison in a third world country, they will think of Ross Perot (his participation in the 1991 presidential election, according to analysts, took away votes from George W. Bush and brought victory to Bill Clinton - editorial note).
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She did make the first move, inviting Jeff to lunch. Three months later they were already engaged, six months later they were married. Jeff first told her about his business idea, Mackenzie then replied that she was not a businesswoman, but she heard passion in her husband’s voice, and already in the following 1994, both quit and moved to Seattle to found Amazon. Mackenzie became the company's accountant and first employee.
Until 1999, the couple rented a one-bedroom house in Seattle. Today they have five homes across America - in Medina, Washington DC, Beverly Hills, Van Horn and Manhattan. Jeff is the 25th largest landowner in the United States, according to Business Insider.
Until 2013, Mackenzie drove four children to school by herself and dropped Jeff off to work in their Honda. Family friend Danny Hillis once told Vogue that the Bezos are such a normal and close-knit family that it is absolutely not normal. They start the day with a healthy breakfast, and in order to spend as much time with the family as possible, Jeff schedules all meetings in the early morning. The head of Amazon ends the day by washing dishes, and his wife absolutely loves it: "I'm sure this is the sexiest thing I've ever done."
When it comes to educating kids, Bezos tried a million strategies: off-season travel, science experiments in the kitchen, hatching chickens, learning Mandarin, a Singapore math program, clubs and clubs with neighborhood kids.
Today Mackenzie, who was an assistant in college to the American writer Toni Morrison, is a novelist. When she needs to write, she leaves for a small apartment and works there until the children need to be taken to school. With pride, she tells publications that her husband is the most devoted reader. Although her own books are not sold on Amazon.