Jeff Bezos has pledged to donate most of his $124 billion dollar fortune. In an interview with CNN, Bezos reveals his plan to give away the majori
Jeff Bezos has pledged to donate most of his $124 billion dollar fortune.
In an interview with CNN, Bezos reveals his plan to give away the majority of his wealth.
The Amazon founder said that he plans to dedicate most of the money to fighting the current climate change crisis.
Bezos claimed the hardest part about giving away this amount of money is trying to figure out “how to do it in a levered way.”
The billionaire was accompanied by his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez during the interview. They have been building the capacity to be able to give away this money, according to them.
Bezos also discussed the importance of having a team to help you. Giving this amount would require careful thinking in order to avoid doing “ineffective things.”
Bezos has been previously criticized for not signing the Giving Pledge, an agreement made by some of the world’s richest people to donate most of their wealth to charity.
This criticism is due to Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie Scott, who signed the Giving Pledge in 2019. She has given a total 12.5 million as of March this year.
