Jeff Bezos will reportedly join the billionaire boating class with a $500M luxury sailing superyacht It’s not exactly the type of vessel that would putter around near the shores of Amazon’s South Lake Union campus… Read More
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace… Read More
Former Washington Post editor writing ‘Collision of Power,’ touching on Trump, Bezos and newspaper Marty Baron, who retired as executive editor of The Washington Post earlier this year, is writing a book about his… Read More
Elon Musk taunts Jeff Bezos over Blue Origin’s challenge to SpaceX’s contract for lunar lander The billionaire space battle just got kicked up a notch, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture challenging… Read More
Jeff Bezos joins Drake, NBA stars and others in $80M backing of Overtime sports media brand Jeff Bezos is among the investors taking part in an $80 million funding round in Overtime, a sports media brand… Read More
Video: Jeff Bezos gives Washington governor a tour of homeless shelter attached to Amazon HQ Jeff Bezos played host to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in a recent tour of the Mary’s Place family shelter that… Read More
Bezos Earth Fund again poaches the leader of a grant recipient to help run its organization The Bezos Earth Fund has hired Charlotte Pera as vice president for Strategy and Programs for the $10 billion effort… Read More
Why Amazon and Jeff Bezos are backing a corporate tax rate hike Jeff Bezos surprised some Amazon critics and followers this week by throwing his weight behind a federal corporate tax hike… Read More
Podcast GeekWire’s new ‘Day 2’ podcast scrutinizes Amazon’s impact on tech, business and the world It feels sometimes like the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” an Amazon shareholder told Jeff Bezos at the company’s… Read More
Jeff Bezos says no thanks to Bernie Sanders’ request to testify on income inequality Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality next week — a… Read More
Bezos, Gates, Ballmer see fortunes soar during COVID-19 as politicians propose new wealth taxes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer saw their already massive fortunes soar during… Read More
$10B Bezos Earth Fund hires a long-time global leader on climate issues as president and CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that his Bezos Earth Fund has hired Andrew Steer, the head of the World Resources Institute,… Read More
Internal memo: Key Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn officially leaving, hinting at new role elsewhere Another Jeff is moving on from his longtime Amazon executive role, filling out the picture of what has become a… Read More
Bezos and the Bills (a.k.a., the three B’s): A Seattle Business Story [Sandeep Krishnamurthy is dean of the School of Business at the University of Washington, Bothell.] Commentary: Jeff Bezos just announced… Read More
Amazon’s new approach to ‘Human Capital’ is a telling takeaway from its annual regulatory report Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees… Read More
Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation Update: In a court filing on Jan. 10, 2024, federal prosecutors vacated the prior guilty pleas of Christian Kirschner and… Read More
Amazon wealth reigns: Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott lead list of top U.S. philanthropists for 2020 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was the top American philanthropist in 2020, giving away $10.1 billion to non-profit efforts associated with… Read More
Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’ [Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served… Read More
Podcast Amazon’s business secrets: Former insiders explain how the tech giant really works in new book How will Amazon maintain its culture as it approaches 1.3 million employees and prepares for its founder Jeff Bezos to… Read More
Washington Post editor talks Bezos and Amazon, and how billionaire owner reshaped newspaper The editor who has been in charge of The Washington Post newsroom ever since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper is… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next… Read More
Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he takes over from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos later this year.… Read More
Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, is a music-loving, wing-eating, hard-charging disciple of Jeff Bezos When singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile sat down for a live video interview in December, the person asking the questions on stage… Read More
Twitter reacts to Jeff Bezos news: Maybe he’ll open an indie bookstore or work to defeat Superman The news Tuesday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would be stepping down from his role as CEO later this year… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this year, replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy in stunning turn for tech giant Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon, becoming executive chairman of the company he conceived 27 years ago… Read More
Washington state lawmakers target Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires with wealth tax A new proposed wealth tax in Washington state would impose a 1% tax on billionaires, affecting Seattle-area tech and business… Read More
Jeff Bezos kicks back with full-thrust firing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine in Texas If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few fireworks shows more thrilling than a test… Read More
Tesla stock surge helps power Elon Musk past Jeff Bezos as richest person in the world Update, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. PT: According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s net worth late Thursday stood at $195… Read More
Amazon’s new $2B fund aims to boost affordable housing in Arlington, Nashville and Seattle areas Amazon is committing more than $2 billion to affordable housing initiatives in the regions of Seattle, Nashville, Tenn., and Arlington,… Read More
