T
The Daily Insight

Jeff Bezos, in Joint Interview with Lauren Sánchez, Says He’ll Give Away Most of His $124 Billion Fortune

Author

Emily Cortez

Published Jan 07, 2026

Jeff Bezos has obtained $124 billion over his lifetime — and presently says he intends to give a large portion of it away.

The Amazon pioneer, 58, told CNN solely that he will principally zero in on battling environmental change and supporting other people who can assist with working on the profound gap over friendly and policy driven issues. However he didn’t go into a nitty gritty blueprint for offering his billions, Bezos is just barely reporting this exceptionally beneficent promise.

As CNN brings up, Bezos has not marked the Giving Vow, a commitment many the world’s most extravagant individuals made to give most of their income to different worthy missions.

Yet, during his meeting with Chloe Melas at his D.C. home on Saturday, Bezos — close by his accomplice Lauren Sánchez — said he is “building the ability to have the option to offer this cash.”

At the point when Melas found out if he expects to give most of his abundance inside his lifetime, he essentially answered, “Better believe it, I do.”

This is whenever the couple first has done a meeting together, which they consented to do considering the Bezos Boldness and Mutual respect Grant that they just granted to blue grass music symbol Cart Parton for $100 million to support her own magnanimous endeavors.

“The critical step is sorting out some way to do it in a turned manner,” he said of his magnanimous procedure, which will be like his tech-building clever.

“It’s difficult. It was difficult to Fabricate Amazon. It took a great deal of difficult work, a lot of exceptionally brilliant colleagues, dedicated partners, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren is tracking down exactly the same thing — that foundation, generosity, is basically the same.”

Jeff Bezos, in Joint Interview with Lauren Sánchez, Says He’ll Give Away Most of His $124 Billion Fortune

— ST P HEWINS (@STHEWINS) November 14, 2022


“There are a lot of ways that I figure you could do inadequate things, as well,” he added. “So you need to consider it cautiously and you must have splendid individuals in the group.”

First off, Bezos has focused on giving generally 8% of his ongoing total assets, around $10 billion more than 10 years, to the Bezos Earth Asset, which Sánchez co-seats.

She let Melas know that they make “truly incredible partners,” notwithstanding, “We can be somewhat exhausting,” Sánchez said, chuckling.

“Never exhausting,” Bezos answered while letting out a smirk. While examining reports of Bezos possibly purchasing the Washington Commandants football crew, the previous Amazon President, presently the organization’s leader seat, by and by addressed energetically. “Indeed,” he said, “I’ve heard that buzz.”

“I experienced childhood in Houston, Texas, and I played football growing up as a youngster … and it is my #1 game … so we’ll simply need to keep a watch out,” Bezos added.

“I truly do like football,” Sánchez ringed in, “I’m about to toss that out there for everybody.”

To the extent that other comparative interests to her accomplice, the courageous helicopter pilot told CNN she expects to go to space at some point in 2023 with an all-female group.

“It’ll be an extraordinary gathering of females,” she prodded.