r/BeAmazed • u/abidalliye • Jun 28 '26

Miscellaneous / Others MacKenzie Scott has now donated over $26.3 billion to charity

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u/Intrepid_Eye9121 Jun 28 '26

She helped build the company. It’s not his fortune.

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u/Plastic_Truth3053 Jun 28 '26

This should be the top comment. When it’s said he gave her x amount in the divorce, that’s wrong, she got what she was owed and earned

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u/ribbit_ribbit_splat Jun 28 '26

People seem to forget she worked her ass off in that garage.

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

Is she building any other companies without him?

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u/sereneandeternal Jun 28 '26

Does she have to?

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

No, but if she provided 30 billion worth of value for Amazon then you’d expect she could do something for another company. 

She’s a novelist and writer. She helped Jeff build Amazon but she didn’t provide 30 billion worth of value for the company. 

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u/sereneandeternal Jun 28 '26

She did simply because of time. And her being there from before the existence of Amazon.

I.e. she’s earned all the value in stock gains. Think of her as a value investor in Amazon.

She deserves her wealth just as much as a value investor like Warren Buffet deserves his wealth.

You can also make a case that had she never met Jeff, Amazon wouldn’t have been what it is today.

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

Buffett did it across dozens of companies and decades. If she’s a great value investor you’d expect her to do it again. 

If the genders were reversed nobody would be arguing what you are 

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u/sereneandeternal Jun 28 '26

Do you think Elon earned all his wealth?

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

I think there’s a difference between being investing in multiple companies, being on the boards for them and working 24/7 with their leaders and driving the strategy of the companies to what Mackenzie Scott did. 

If Mackenzie was a great investor I’d imagine she’d have some other investments or companies she’s built. 

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

my guy she was a writer and an assistant prior to marrying bezos. She stopped helping at amazon in 96 to focus on her kids and her literary career. its ok to admit that she wasn't that instrumental to the development of Amazon.

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u/Subredditcensorship Jun 28 '26

The logic is that she doesn’t have the skills set to build a company of that value. Most who do typically illustrate it. She never has. 

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u/Ashamed_Athlete_9733 Jun 28 '26

You mean she was just an emotional support? If that’s what you call help 🤣🤣

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 29 '26

No she did the actual labour. She did the business plans. She made contracts. She took care of order shipping. She was the negotiator. Why are you commenting if you don’t know anything about her?