Jeff Bezos’s Journey From Private Family Man to Tabloid Sensation
The Amazon CEO cultivated a persona of the billionaire who did dishes, until his company moved into Hollywood
One Saturday night last September, a crowd of celebrities, Silicon Valley titans and Hollywood executives gathered at television producer Mark Burnett’s Malibu mansion for a birthday party celebrating venture capitalist Vivi Nevo.
The richest of them all was Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, whose stake in Amazon is worth about $125 billion. He sat in the middle of the action and appeared to relish the spotlight, said a guest who knows Mr. Bezos.
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