Bezos’s Secret Company and Biden’s $875k-a-Ticket Fundraiser

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 13: CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos participates in a discussion during a Milestone Celebration dinner September 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Economic Club of Washington celebrated its 32nd anniversary at the event. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Theodore Schleifer
September 1, 2021
You wrote last summer about a secretive new company that Jeff Bezos had started in part to manage his philanthropy. What happened to that? Two summers ago, in the wake of his ex-wife’s very public signing of the Giving Pledge, Jeff Bezos quietly formed a company called Fellowship Ventures, perhaps with the intention of facilitating some head-turning philanthropy of his own. The LLC, registered in Delaware by his personal lawyer, Paul Dauber, emerged from obscurity last August when I reported that it applied for the trademark to the Bezos Earth Fund, the new $10 billion climate-change philanthropy that Bezos created last year, then disappeared back under the radar.

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