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smt88today at 1:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

She wasn’t a passive housewife who inherited money in a divorce. She was an early Amazon investor and helped build the first stage of the company. She’d be a billionaire even without the divorce.


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jambalaya8today at 3:04 AM

Would she have made money from Amazon had she not married Bezos? Or even from any dotcom?

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rescriptingtoday at 2:06 AM

I’m not trying to dismiss the investments she made (both time and money), but more point out that she was not driven by the same corrupting motivations you get with typical billionaires. If she was, she’d have taken her wealth and done more capitalism with it.