“Granted, she was doing other things during that time,” added her interviewer Rebecca Johnson, “moving cross-country, giving birth to four children (three boys and a girl, ranging in age from seven to twelve), helping her husband start a fledgling business called .” She had good mentors In 2013, Scott told Vogue that it had taken 10 years and “a lot of tears” to finish her first novel. Scott, writing as MacKenzie Bezos, is the author of two well-regarded novels: The Testing of Luther Albright, which was named a Los Angeles Times “book of the year” in 2005, and Traps, published eight years later, which Kirkus Reviews called a “cleverly orchestrated, cool-toned” tale. According to a 1999 Wired interview, MacKenzie negotiated Amazon’s first freight contracts, doing so while working out of a Starbucks café in a local Barnes & Noble. On the way to Washington, MacKenzie drove while Jeff worked on their business plan, tapping it out on his laptop. “I picked books as the first, best product to sell online after making a list of, like, 20 different products,” Bezos told an interviewer in 1997. In 1994, they quit their jobs and moved to Seattle to start Amazon (then conceived as an online bookseller) from the garage of their new home. Shaw, working out of adjoining offices, and then married a year later. Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott met in 1992, when they were both at the New York hedge fund D.E.

Here is everything we know about MacKenzie Scott and her journey to becoming one of the world’s most notable philanthropists. billionaires who haven’t figured out comparable ways to boldly share,” he wrote. “She’s now made two bold moves, putting to shame the other 650 U.S. Barts with Sanchez showed off his newly buff body in $260 Vilebrequin swim shorts that quickly became an Internet sensation and has methodically squeezed every last dollar out of his Amazon employees while fighting their efforts to unionize.Īnd as Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, wrote at CommonDreams, Scott-a relative newcomer on the billionaire-giving scene-has quickly made herself the role model for others to follow. It’s quite a contrast to her ex-husband, the 56-year-old Bezos, who in the past few years has bought mansions in Washington, D.C., and Beverly Hills, as well as a multi-apartment complex on Manhattan’s Central Park South and a 300,000-acre property in Texas partied in St-Tropez and St.

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