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A look inside the marriage of world's richest couple Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos - who met at work, were engaged within 3 months, and own more land than almost anyone else in America

Nov 2, 2017, 21:34 IST

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• After meeting at D.E. Shaw, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos were married in 1993.

• Shortly afterward, the couple relocated to Seattle to found Amazon - MacKenzie was one of the company's first employees.

• Today, Jeff Bezos is worth $90.6 billion, making him the world's richest person.


Jeff Bezos wasn't alone when he made his cross-county road trip to Seattle in 1994. And he wasn't alone when he founded Amazon, now an online retail giant some analysts believe will be the world's first trillion-dollar company.

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His wife MacKenzie was there for the whole journey.

In an interview with CBS, she described watching her husband build Amazon up from scratch: "To me watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure, what is better than that?"

Here's a look inside the 24-year marriage of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos.

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