Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wi

本篇课程首发于2019年1月12日，选自 Associated Press

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wife divorcing after 25 years

① Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are divorcing, ending a 25-year marriage that played a role in the creation of an e-commerce company that made Bezos one of the world's wealthiest people.

② The divorce ended with a vow to remain "cherished friends." "If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again," the couple said.

③ Left unanswered was one of the biggest sticking points in any divorce: How the assets amassed during the marriage will be divided. It's likely that MacKenzie Bezos, a 48-year-old novelist, holds a large claim to that fortune.

④ Amazon now has a market value of $811 billion, more than any other publicly traded company in the United States. Its origins trace back to a road trip that the Bezoses took together not long after they met in New York while working at hedge fund D.E. Shaw.

⑤ Amazon has since evolved from an upstart website selling books to an e-commerce goliath that sells virtually all imaginable merchandise and runs data centers that power many other digital services such as Netflix.