Game-Changer: The Bezos Day One Fund's Billions for Charity

Bezos, founder, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the largest online retailer globally became the world’s wealthiest person in 2018, with a net worth at that time of approximately US$164 billion. He also owns the famed American newspaper, “The Washington Post,” the food retailer Whole Foods Market, and Blue Origin, a space exploration company. In September 2018, he and Mackenzie Bezos released their plan to creat a charitable project together called the “Bezos Day One Fund.”