<story><title>Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020</title><url>https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Co-founder? I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of that</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mushufasa</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t realize this either, so I looked up her wikipedia page:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In 1993, Scott and Bezos were married, and in 1994, they both left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and started Amazon. Scott was one of Amazon&amp;#x27;s first employees, and was heavily involved in Amazon&amp;#x27;s early days, working on the company&amp;#x27;s name, business plan, accounts and shipping early orders.[4][8] She also negotiated the company&amp;#x27;s first freight contract.[8] When Amazon began to succeed, Scott took a less involved role in the business, preferring to focus on her family and literary career.[4]&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020</title><url>https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Co-founder? I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of that</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Darmody</author><text>Yes. She didn&amp;#x27;t get the money only for being &amp;quot;the wife&amp;quot; as many people think.&lt;p&gt;She worked at Amazon and she is one of the people that made the company succeed.</text></comment>