Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces he will donate $120 billion

The billionaire and his girlfriend, the presenter Lauren Sanchezhave announced on CNN that they are the last to join the movement of rich people in solidarity that the philanthropist promoted a few months ago Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos He has stated that he will donate most of his fortune, estimated at more than 120,000 million dollars: “The hard part is figuring out how to do it.”

“It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It required hard work and very smart teammates. And I’m discovering, and Lauren is discovering, that philanthropy is very similar. It’s not easy. It’s very difficult,” he explained in the interview.

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The businessman resigned from his CEO position at Amazon last year to devote more time to philanthropy. His first initiative was to donate 10,000 million to the Earth Fund, an NGO that fights against climate change, and distributed another 510 million dollars among different non-profit organizations. In addition, Bezos has awarded a $100 million prize to singer Dolly Parton, who helped create Moderna’s vaccine against COVID-19, and another $100 million to chef José Andrés, who feeds the most needy with his NGO World Central Kitchen.

Bezos thus joins the movement Giving Pledgea campaign led by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates y Warren Buffett in which they invite billionaires to donate most of their wealth through philanthropy to improve the world.