How the wife of the founder of Amazon made her husband the richest on earth
'10.01.2018'
ForumDaily Woman
9 January 2018, founder of online retailer Amazon, Jeff Bezos became the richest man in history. Ego status reached $ 105,1. The capital of Bezos has increased due to the rise in the value of Amazon shares, but the beginning of the gold-bearing idea was Mrs. Bezos. Rather, then Mackenzie still bore the name Tuttle and was not his wife. But became a muse.
Jeff Bezos has always been ambitious. In the 1990 year, in the 26 years, he became vice president Bankers trustafter which he moved to the position of senior vice president of a financial company DE Shaw & Co. A year later, he decided it was time to marry. He asked his friends to look for lonely girls among friends and arrange blind dates for them.
The date went after the date, but there was no result. But with the work everything was more than fine. Even then, he began to think about the prospects of online commerce. Will it be in demand? What products are people willing to buy without prior inspection?
But from thinking about the business, Jeff began to distract a colleague. An analyst from his company fell in love with Vice-President Bezos, and his office was nearby. What is interesting withThe interview for the reception of Mackenzie was conducted by Jeff himself.
“I consider my wife resourceful, intelligent, sensible and sexy, but I was lucky that I saw her resume before I saw her myself - I knew her SAT scores (academic ability exam), ”He admitted.
The first step was taken by Mackenzie, inviting him to dinner one day. Subsequently, she noted that she was captivated by a famous rolling laugh and immediately fell in love.
Jeff could not help but answer the tall slim 23-year-old beauty and fell in love in response.
The novel quickly gained momentum: at first they talked in a friendly way until it became obvious that they were ideally suited to each other. Mackenzie told Jeff that she wanted to become a writer and was writing her first book. And it dawned on Bezos: you have to start by selling books.
1994 opened an online bookstore Amazon. This made it possible to successfully start, and after that, to expand the range.
Three months after the beginning of the novel, Bezos made an offer to Mackenzie, and three months later they were married.
In 1994, the couple quit and moved to Seattle, founding Amazon. Mackenzie became her accountant and first employee.
The wife surrounded the entrepreneur with care: despite the tight schedule at work, she never forgot to put him a pack of vitamins on the road, and his pants were always perfectly ironed.
For a graduate of Princeton University, who for many years dreamed of a career as a writer, it seemed like a step backwards. But she wanted too much to support her husband.
“As for me, when you make an adventure with the other half, the person you love, is the best thing that can happen,” says Mackenzie Bezos.
Mackenzie nevertheless self-actualized as a writer: her bestseller The Testing of Luther Albright received a prestigious literary award National book award... Writing was a girl's old dream. She was fond of writing from early childhood.
Mackenzie Bezos grew up in San Francisco. She admits that she was a shy child, preferring to close in her room and compose "tangled stories." Mackenzie wrote her first book called the Bookworm in 6 years. It was a handwritten novel on the 142 page that the author claims she lost.
After high school, Mackenzie entered Princeton University, where she studied literature and literary skill in a course with Tony Morrison, the Nobel Prize in Literature. The writer spoke about Mackenzie as one of the most talented female students in her entire teaching career. To make a living, a student worked at different times as a dishwasher, waitress, shop assistant, cashier, nanny, and assistant Tony Morrison.
After graduating from university, Mackenzie continued to be engaged in writing, but was forced to go to work in an investment firm to pay the tuition fees.
This work helped her not only earn money, but also introduced her future spouse. Jeff Bezos recalls that his wife often locked herself in the bathroom and wrote her novel. She spent ten years before published The Testing of Luther Albright (Luther Albright test). In 2005, Mackenzie received the American Book Award for Excellence in Literature.
A few years later she began to work on the second novel. Traps (Traps) and didn't show it to her husband until she was completely finished. So that nothing would be distracted, she left for a separate apartment and sat at a book until it was time to pick up the children from school. The novel was released in 2013. “What I love most about literature is the connection between the imagination of the writer and the personal experience of the reader,” says Mackenzie.
Having received the status of the wife of one of the richest people in the world at the beginning of the two thousandth, Mackenzie did not change her attitude to life.
She drove the children to school and took them home. She still cooks herself and helps children get ready for school. The couple have three sons and adopted daughter from China.
“After the birth of my third child, I realized that I could not be a good parent and continue to write at the same time. I've been too busy all these years, ”says Mackenzie Bezos.
In his spare time, Mackenzie does charity work and helps the public. In 2014, she founded an organization called Bystander Revolutionwhich is designed to reduce bullying in schools.
As for the education of children, Bezos tried a million strategies: traveling out of season, scientific experiments in the kitchen, breeding chickens, learning Mandarin, Singapore’s mathematics program, clubs and clubs with neighboring children.
Today, MacKenzie, who was an assistant with the American writer Tony Morrison in college, is a novelist. According to her, her husband is the most devoted reader of hers. Although her books on Amazon not for sale.
