If he wants to, he has great wealth to share with others. It seemed exactly what he intended to do.
American Time Wednesday evening, Bezos said on Twitter that he has decided to focus his charitable career on ' two areas '.
A year ago, also on Twitter, Bezos asked for advice on his charitable donation activities. In Wednesday, Bezos said he would announce the two areas before ' the end of the summer '.
Bezos also said he wanted to ' announce some job postings ' at the same time, hinting that his new, mysterious philanthropic activities might bring some new jobs.
This April, in an interview with Mathias Dopfner, chief executive of Axelspringer, the German newspaper giant, Mr Bezos talked about how to capitalize on the enormous wealth that he had in his own personal Marceias Dovna.
At the time, he stressed that he had been investing in the space company he founded: The Blue Origin (Blueorigin). "The only way I can think of how to make effective use of so much financial resources is to spend my Amazon money on space travel," Bezos said. This is basically the case.
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He says the creation and funding of blue origins is ' the most important work I'm doing '. "The blue origins are huge enough to take advantage of this wealth," Bezos said. I currently sell about 1 billion dollars worth of Amazon shares a year to fund the origins of Blue. In the future for quite a long time, I plan to continue to do so.
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In his company, Bezos was thinking of a vision.
However, for philanthropy, Bezos says he will be more focused on near-term goals. "I'm thinking about a charitable strategy that's the opposite of what I've been doing most of the time-thinking about long-term goals," Bezos said in a tweet that asked for advice for his charitable activities last year. For charity, I find myself attracted to another extreme: focus on the present.
' He said: ' I like the long-term goal--it's a huge lever: the origins of Blue, Amazon, the Washington Post, and all of these businesses are contributing to society and civilization in their own way. But I was thinking, I hope that a large part of my philanthropic activities will help people here and there in the short term-both to meet both urgent needs and lasting effects.
' It has long been criticized that Bezos has not devoted much of his wealth to philanthropy. By contrast, the world's second and fourth richest people, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Buffett the ' Donation Vows ' campaign (Giving Pledge),