Similar promises have been made by other billionaires.
CNN reports that this is the first time that Bezos has announced plans to give away the majority of his fortune. In a clip of the interview published by CNN, interviewer Chloe Melas asks if Bezos plans “to give away the majority of your wealth in your lifetime.”
“Yeah, I do,” Bezos responds. “The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way… It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren [Sánchez, Bezos’ partner] is finding the same thing — that philanthropy, is very similar. It’s not easy, it’s really hard.”“There are a bunch of ways that I think you could do ineffective things, too,” Bezos added.
The comments make Bezos the latest billionaire to say he’ll give away some or all of his wealth to charitable causes. Most notably, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said he plans to give away “
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