Bill Clinton collected $12 million for his memoirs.
Hilary Clinton got $8 million for hers.
That's $20 million for the memories of two people, who for years have repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.
@AishwaryakiRai To such extant , seems implausible. How many well to do families of India have seen a private air strip even today forget 60 odd years ago !! It would be the top echoloens for sure .
A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.
After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.
She didn’t laugh at the idea.
They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.
In the beginning, there was no global empire.
There was a garage.
MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.
As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.
Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.
Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.
Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.
MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.
She never seemed interested in changing that.
What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.
Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.
In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.
Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.
She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.
Then she did something even more unusual.
Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.
Universities.
Food banks.
Housing organizations.
Rural communities.
Women’s health initiatives.
Tribal colleges.
Climate organizations.
Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.
Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.
They weren’t.
Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.
Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.
The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.
She never asked for buildings in her name.
She never demanded headlines.
Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.
It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.
@RiaRevealed@mybmc Besides your lane , jams happen in Cuffe parade morning & early evening on ac of somani schools , abwa & hill spring create traffic bottlenecks on tardeo rd , bombay international causes jams at babulnath. So zoning is the need of the hour.
@RiaRevealed@mybmc They can't do that on ac of greenlawns school , parents will be up in arms . It's actually a one way from the kemps side but cars use it to bypass perennially jammed Stephen's signal. This is a breakdown of larger zoning laws, putting schools in residential areas cause jams.
🚰 WATER CRISIS IN MUMBAI 🚰
Mumbai is running on less than 7% of its drinking water.
- 7 lakes supply the city.
- 10% water cut for households.
- 20% cut for commercial & industrial users.
- Water supply to construction sites has been stopped.
- Reserve water stock is now being used to keep Mumbai running.
While everyone is talking about Ethanol, Data centre and what not, The financial capital of India is waiting for the monsoon to save it.
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?
@richapintoi Whom to contact in the bmc to stop the musical system installed at hanging gardens , it inteferes with natural bird song and spoils the environment.
@piyush_trades Please research the systematic dismantling of bsnl by the government in the last decade. You will have your answer as to why this duopoly was created, serving the public is the last thing our public servants do !!