GeekWire

Amazon payments to Bezos’ Blue Origin reach $1.8B as shareholders cite conflicts of interest

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, shows off a mockup of the New Shepard suborbital space capsule during a 2017 conference in Colorado. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) ...
GeekWire

Jeff Bezos says this business is becoming Amazon’s next ‘pillar’

Amazon’s next pillar could be built on a foundation of silicon. In a new interview with Fortune, Amazon founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom chip business is on track to ...
CNBC

Bezos defends billionaires, hypes AI, talks taxes and praises Trump in CNBC interview

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos backed an idea of eliminating income taxes for the bottom half of U.S. earners in a CNBC interview. He also praised artificial intelligence, blamed economic ...
The Motley Fool

Jeff Bezos Remains Amazon's Largest Individual Shareholder With Roughly 900 Million Shares. Here's Why That Stake Still Anchors the Stock.

Jeff Bezos is not only the person who built Amazon (AMZN-1.10%). He is still the largest individual owner of the company, holding roughly 900 million shares, and has a significant influence on how the ...