The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman

The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman
Amazon’s first employee, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, and one of the world’s richest women is rewriting the philanthropy playbook
Stephanie Clifford
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22 min read·
Oct 6, 2020
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Illustration: Nicole Rifkin
While Jeff Bezos was building Amazon from a garage into one of the most powerful companies on earth and becoming the richest…
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Written by Stephanie Clifford
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Journalist covering criminal justice and business; novelist (NYT bestseller Everybody Rise). Latest: https://marker.medium.com/inside-the-surreal-and-emotional-
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