2026 Met Gala was haunted by Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos is executive chairman of Amazon, the company he founded in 1994. He was chief executive of the tech giant until 2021, when Andy Jassy took over. Since its creation in a Washington state garage,
In 1998, just four years after founding Amazon, Jeff Bezos paid $10 million for a lakefront compound in Medina, Washington — a 5.3-acre estate that he would pour tens of millions into over the decades,
The extravagant annual event, of which Jeff Bezos is an honorary co-chair this year, benefits an institute that doesn’t need his millions.
After Amazon's chief bought his way to the top of the museum steps, a protest movement threw its own gala — and made the case that culture was never his to claim.
Most of my co-workers work two jobs. Why is that, when we work for one of the richest people in America? Make it make sense," said Mary Hill, a 72-year-old Amazon warehouse worker who walked in the show.
The first time I spoke to Jeff Bezos, he had founded Amazon as an online bookstore and made himself available to all kinds of journalists — a "political genius," said The New York Times Magazine, a "brilliant, charming, hyper, and misleadingly goofy ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Dan Kennedy, Northeastern University (THE CONVERSATION) The Washington Post’s evisceration at the hands of its billionaire owner, Amazon ...