GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

” Tagging along with Jeff Bezos to one of Amazon’s early offices: “I took Jeff Bezos to see his first headquarters in a shitty section of Seattle. It’s sort of like if I was around during Standard Oil and I knew them before. It was my duty to do that, so that’s why I did.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos is a longtime backer of General Fusion and his VC arm Bezos Expeditions participated in the round. And the announcement teased to the promise of more cash to come, stating that this was merely “the prelude to a large financing round being prepared for 2022.”

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has begun unsealing the bids for an open seat on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, and the high bid hit the $2.4 Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship ascends from its West Texas launch pad for a January test flight. Blue Origin via YouTube).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Post your score and tag GeekWire on Twitter or LinkedIn for bragging rights. Jeff Bezos. In February, protestors in The Netherlands signed up to toss what food item at Jeff Bezos’ new $500 million megayacht when it passed through the city of Rotterdam? Take an interactive version of the quiz below, or at this link.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The entomologists and researchers leading the fight against Asian giant hornets in Washington state have made some tweaks to the tech they’re using to tag, track and hopefully eliminate the invasive species. Elon Musk goads Jeff Bezos on Twitter as their prolonged space spat escalates. … Read More. … Read More.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

Shareholders torpedoed that proposition by a margin of roughly six to one, signaling they want Bezos to continue to have a role in the company. From the meeting: Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation.

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GeekWire

JULY 3, 2020

Alan Boyle speaks with Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos at the Museum of Flight’s Annual Pathfinder Awards in 2016. Alan is a machine, but not some AI-programmed sci-fi robot reporter. He’s a true journalist who knows how to dig, probe and get to the truth, no matter how complex the subject matter. .”

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2020

“The pain and emotional trauma caused by the racism and violence we are witnessing toward the black community has a long reach,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in an Instagram post directing users to this essay , “especially if you’re a manager or leader.” View our spreadsheet here: [link].

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GeekWire

JUNE 13, 2021

The Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.). In his latest annual letter to shareholders , Bezos acknowledged that Amazon needs to “do a better job for our employees” and said that more than $300 million will be invested in workplace safety projects this year.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The sessions are more expensive than your typical teenage space camp: August’s five-day, four-night program carried a price tag of $29,500, and the prices for December’s three-day, two-night session start at $15,000. “And that’s really what Orbite does.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

And one of the issues that a lot of people ran into was luggage, and there were some fascinating stories about air tags from Apple being used to track luggage. I was testing Alaska Airlines’ new electronic bag tag over the holidays on my own bag and in my own travels. Is the airlines going to step forward and do this?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s literally as if Jeff Bezos does have a crystal ball and said, I’m going to design a company around a pandemic. And to be blunt, I kind of look forward to seeing the healthcare industry get tagged pretty hard in the chin. Who’s the biggest cloud provider of computing power? There’s Amazon.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 1, 2016

To talk more about Twilio’s journey, Vogels brings out Jeff Lawson of Twilio. Companies need to not play it safe; Vogels quotes Jeff Bezos in saying “If you already know the outcome, it’s not an experiment.” Overriding all of these, though, is the guideline to “protect customers at all costs.”.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore. ” He sent a copy of Bezos’ business plan to his son, John Alberg , who was recently out of college and working as a software engineer on the East Coast. — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 11, 2019.

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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2021

The Government Accountability Office today turned back protests from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alabama-based Dynetics, ruling that NASA was within its rights to award a single $2.9 The price tag for the Blue Origin team’s proposal was nearly $6 billion, or twice as high as SpaceX’s bid.

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Vox

MAY 1, 2023

That included face time with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg as well as exclusive visits to the headquarters of Apple and Google. The fact that Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist has led to a standoff between MBS and the owner of the paper, Jeff Bezos, whose phone was reportedly hacked by the Saudi crown prince.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

He called the decision by Kindle Direct Publishing “insane” in a tweet in which he tagged Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Musk is competing with Amazon and Bezos on a number of levels, both on Earth and off.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Last week Twitter suffered a catastrophic security breach, with attackers managing to wrangle temporary control of the accounts of President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others. The feature lets companies bypass the legal hurdles and enormous price tags of traditional celebrity endorsements.

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