Bezos' staggering fortune is 739,489 times the median net
worth of an American at age 65, the average age at which people in the US
retire.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said it was time to bust
out the tequila.
Standing by the seashore, the celebrity wrestler and film
star put his arm around Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) founder. Bezos,
in sunglasses, smiled for a picture and then shared it on the 'gram. The men
had just announced a movie deal for Amazon Studios.
The science fiction fan is planning a joy ride to suborbital
space with his best friend and brother, Mark, this month, one recent post said.
In another, Bezos is behind the wheel of an electric pickup truck built by
Rivian, a startup that Amazon funded, traversing the desert in a cowboy hat to
see a rocket capsule land.
The final frontier has long beckoned Bezos, who has poured
billions of dollars into his company Blue Origin to promote tourism and
infrastructure in space. The venture's first crewed flight is to embark July
20, less than two weeks after Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to commence a
new epoch of travel beyond earth. read more
Bezos leaves Amazon's former cloud computing chief Andy
Jassy to run a company that is bigger and more valuable than ever. It's unclear
how Bezos will govern from the sidelines. read more
Bezos, a hedge fund executive turned garage entrepreneur,
long defined Amazon's culture, through business adages like "customer
obsession" and "have backbone; disagree and commit," as well as
curt emails to his team bearing just a question mark.
Neither Amazon nor Bezos responded to a request for comment.
Bezos said in an April letter to investors that he would
focus on new initiatives as executive chair and making Amazon a better place to
work. That followed employee frustration that surfaced during a failed
unionization campaign in Alabama.
His Instagram, though, spotlights his interest in Tinsel
Town. Bezos posted about Oscar nods and Golden Globe wins for Amazon Studios,
and during his last annual meeting as CEO he talked about re-imagining screen
heroes for the 21st century through Amazon's deal to buy MGM. read more
(Not featured on his Instagram is a yacht, longer than a
football field, which Bezos reportedly owns and which will come with a support
yacht and helipad once it's built, according to Bloomberg News. His partner,
Lauren Sanchez, is a helicopter pilot.)
Bezos has also met with public officials to draw attention
to his philanthropy. He discussed his climate efforts with French President
Emmanuel Macron and gave Washington Governor Jay Inslee a tour of a homeless
shelter, his posts show.
He's had some fun with music stars Katy Perry, Lil Nas X and
Lizzo, too.
He posted from the Super Bowl in 2020, "I just took a
DNA test, turns out I'm 100% @lizzobeeating's biggest fan."