hobnobbing with royalty scoffing iguanas and scouring the ocean floor for mysterious space
relics in a custom submarine these are the normal everyday hobbies the world's second richest man
has lots more time for since moon walking out of the amazon c-suite earlier this year so what
actually is jeff's routine these days join us as we explore a day in the life of jeff bezos
after amazon jeff bezos is not a fan of alarm clocks instead he prefers to hit the sack early
and wake up in his own good time preferably after a solid eight hour sleep eight hours of sleep
makes a big difference for me and i try hard to make that a priority he told ariana huffington's
thrive global apparently less sleep makes him moody why does that matter because he's a decision
maker as a senior executive you get paid to make a small number of high quality decisions he recently
told an ord assembly at the economic club of washington your job is not to make thousands
of decisions every day if i make like three good decisions a day that's enough or as bezos rather
philosophically expressed it during a princeton university commencement address in the end we are
our choices so we know he's well rested when he wakes up no longer beside his ex-wife mackenzie
but most likely new squeeze lauren sanchez sanchez is a helicopter pilot by the way
and an emmy-winning journalist she also fun fact fans had a brief cameo in fight club
where bezos wakes up is an interesting question he recently splashed out 78 million dollars on
a remote hawaiian ranch for himself and lauren to canoodling but that's only a tiny corner of
his vast real estate empire in fact jeff bezos is the 25th largest landowner in the united states
there's the legendary nine-acre jack warner estate in los angeles bought last year from
music mogul david geffen for 165 million dollars it has a nine hole golf course in
its grounds there's a totally separate cluster of beverly hills mansions also owned by bezos
a sprawling four-story condo on the upper west side of manhattan and a separate multi-storey 15
bedroom condo a short taxi ride away from that in the flat iron district there's also bezos
23 million dollar 10 bedroom washington dc mansion the largest in the city in the same
neighborhood as the obamas security conscious bezos also bought the mansion next door and the
one over the road cause why not that one has an elevator and a 700 bottle wine cellar and don't
forget his 118 million dollar property in medina washington state and the mansion next door to that
not to mention his 400 000 acre corn ranch in van horn texas which sleeps 12 and serves as the base
for blue origin his wannabe space company anyway let's say he's woken up well rested at one of his
ultra lavish properties i like to putter in the morning he told the economic club of washington dc
i like to read the newspaper i like to have coffee i like to have breakfast with my kids before they
go to school very little is known about his kids his eldest preston was born in 2000 and attends or
attended princeton university he has two younger sons and a young daughter adopted from china
at some point in jeff's day it's safe to assume he works out tech nerds don't get that ripped without
lifting after all presumably one of his houses has space for a modest home gym what about work then
just because he's retired as amazon ceo doesn't mean his inbox isn't as bursting as his shirt
i do my high iq meetings before lunch he reveals anything that's going to be really
mentally challenging that's a 10 o'clock meeting by 5 pm i'm like i can't think about that today
i'll try again tomorrow at 10 am at amazon he was an outspoken advocate of what he called work-life
harmony as opposed to work-life balance the reason we are here is to get stuff done he funded if you
can't excel and put everything into it this might not be the place for you according to jeff's own
mom quoted in bradstone's book the everything store he was always a bit of a workaholic at
montessori preschool bezos was regularly so engrossed in whatever he was doing that they
had to pick up his chair with him still in it and move it to the next activity a high school friend
also recalled he was capable of really focusing in a crazy way on certain things he was extremely
disciplined which is just as well because on top of his remaining responsibilities at amazon
backseat driving andy jassy's every decision presumably bezos also has a newspaper to run
the washington post is in bezos's own unusual turn of phrase a complexifier why buying the paper for
250 million dollars in 2013 put him squarely in the front line when hostilities between the media
and the trump administration boiled over after the 2016 election it seems likely that embarrassing
revelations concerning bezos marital infidelity only came to light as the paper was a thorn in
trump's side still outgoing washington post editor martin barron has praised jeff bezos for being
a hands-off proprietor i knew full well that he won't interfere said baron of bezos's involvement
in the day-to-day running of the paper i've never heard a complaint never heard a suggestion
never heard anything certainly on bezos's watch the post has gone from strength to strength
adding over 200 staff to its newsroom which now numbers some 900 journalists being hands off of
the paper presumably means he can find more time to go to space with blue origin that's a dream
he's harbored since devouring jules verne and isaac asimov books as a child since i stepped down
as the ceo of amazon bezos happily told cnbc i have a lot of time to dedicate to this vision his
objective with blue origin he claims is ultimately an environmental one we are in the process
of destroying this planet he told cbs we've sent robotic probes to every planet in the solar system
this is the good one we have to preserve this planet hence his dream of expanding human
civilization off world on gigantic space stations so our earth can be maintained as a nature reserve
in the meantime the senti billionaire is investing lavishly in philanthropic endeavors
not least some 10 billion dollars he set aside for the bezos earth fund which goes about putting
his vast wealth to work supporting on-the-ground initiatives practical policy design and green tech
incubators at the recent cop 26 conference in glasgow bezos met with veteran environmentalist
prince charles and prince william to announce a new two billion dollar pledge to launch soil
fertility and carbon sequestration initiatives in africa how that squares with jeff's two private
gulf stream jets worth around 150 million dollars is a tricky question still not all jeff bezos is
large yes is directed at the climate crisis his day one fund has pledged two billion dollars to
tackle homelessness and poor quality early childhood education in the us and perhaps
surprisingly for such a famous micromanager he's handing over these funds mostly no strings
attached so what about his hobbies jeff bezos indulges in perhaps the most fabulously niche rich
dude pastime you've ever heard of to wit scouring the ocean floor hunting for jettisoned apollo era
rocket parts he'll head out in a boat often with his family in tow often for several days
at a time and employ remote controlled submarines to hunt down undersea debris the stuff that fell
away during launches in the 1960s or crashed back to earth on re-entry in the 70s we found
so much gushed bezos on an intense blog post we've seen an underwater wonderland an incredible
sculpture garden of twisted f1 engines many of the original serial numbers are missing or partially
missing which makes mission identification difficult each to their own what else does
he like doing watching star trek of course he's such a fan that he arranged paid presumably to
be cast as a star fleet official in star trek beyond not to mention launching his boyhood hero
william shatner into space on a rocket early this year cause why not it's hard to say what he eats
but he definitely ate iguana at least once at an explorer's club dinner in new york the idea of the
dinner was to highlight that iguanas are now an invasive species and frequently carry salmonella
bon appetit i guess elsewhere on the menu wealthy patrons were served python crickets tarantulas
cockroaches and a jellyfish salad back when he was married he apparently did the dishes joking
it's the sexiest thing i do which may well be true so in sum what does a day in the life of
jeff bezos look like as he said himself returning to earth after that successful blue origin flight
in july best day ever what do you think how would you spend a day if you were jeff bezos
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