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Jeff Bezos, who based Amazon out of his Seattle storage in 1994, is leaving town and transferring to Miami to be close to his dad and mom and his house firm Blue Origin.
Bezos introduced the choice in an Instagram publish late Thursday, which included a video of him touring one in all Amazon’s earliest workplaces, the storage of his rented residence within the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington. It was there that Bezos in 1995 launched Amazon as a web-based bookseller, earlier than reworking the corporate right into a retail and cloud computing large.
“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here,” Bezos wrote. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
Amazon’s fast development reshaped Seattle, significantly its South Lake Union space, the place the corporate’s headquarters sits. Its rise helped flip Seattle right into a tech hub, resulting in an inflow of extremely paid tech staff, but additionally increased rents and homelessness.
Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, turning the helm over to former cloud boss Andy Jassy. Bezos transitioned to govt chairman of Amazon’s board.
After stepping down as Amazon CEO, Bezos has spent extra time on private ambitions just like the Earth Fund and Blue Origin, in addition to The Washington Post, which he acquired in 2013.
His presence has prolonged past Seattle for a while. Bezos just lately spent $150 million for 2 adjoining properties in Miami’s Indian Creek Village, sometimes called the “billionaire bunker.” He owns different properties all over the world.
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