Email from Jeff Bezos to employees • Hacker News Board

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by 1-6 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:22 PM UTC

GizmoSwan wrote: post #12

Time to spend the cash. The big money had been made.

I think retirement is more of a time to ponder life. I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure. He'll probably invest in multiple companies.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by crocodiletears » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #7

enraged_camel wrote: post #3

End of an era. I wonder what he'll do next.

Maybe he’ll take a cue from Bill Gates and get involved in philanthropy. Alternatively he might get more involved in Blue Origin?

Hopefully the latter. We've got an excess of billionaires trying to mould society with their vast sums of wealth.

Blue Origin would be a great use of his time. Massive long-term benefit to humanity, few implications on global governance or the lives of most individuals.

Or his own private charter city, so people have to consent to live in his world.

Or he could blow it all on yachts, hookers and blow.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by gamblor956 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

Note that Bezos announced that he will retire...in Q3 2021. Amazon uses the calendar fiscal year, so this means sometime Jul-Sep.

AWS head will take over as new CEO.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

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Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by mmmeff » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

catacombs wrote: post #31

bobo_legos wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's probably bored at this point. Whats there really left to do at Amazon? AWS and the website are eating the world. He's 57. Why not at this point go play with his rockets and spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves.

> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves. Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.

Definitely. So many tax loopholes to exploit.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by fakedang » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

catacombs wrote: post #31

bobo_legos wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's probably bored at this point. Whats there really left to do at Amazon? AWS and the website are eating the world. He's 57. Why not at this point go play with his rockets and spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves.

> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves. Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.

Especially if you can change the narrative from "evil capitalist who forces his workers to piss in buckets" to "pioneer O'Reilly tube colonist"

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by whoknew1122 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

thinkling wrote: post #37

Weren't Jassy and Wilke co-CEOs already? I guess Jassy was "CEO" of AWS and now gets to be (actual-) CEO of Amazon.com?

Jassy was the CEO of AWS. I'm not sure what role he had regarding leadership of the entire company, but his title was CEO of AWS.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by d_silin » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

1.3 million employees, wow!

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by acomjean » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #7

enraged_camel wrote: post #3

End of an era. I wonder what he'll do next.

Maybe he’ll take a cue from Bill Gates and get involved in philanthropy. Alternatively he might get more involved in Blue Origin?

His ex gave away 4.2 billion last December FWIW.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/style/mackenzie-scott-pri...

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by saagarjha » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

catacombs wrote: post #31

bobo_legos wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's probably bored at this point. Whats there really left to do at Amazon? AWS and the website are eating the world. He's 57. Why not at this point go play with his rockets and spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves.

> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves. Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.

As long as it's unconditional investing…