{"id":11908,"date":"2023-11-03T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-says-bye-to-seattle-moves-to-miami-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T05:56:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:56:58","slug":"amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-says-bye-to-seattle-moves-to-miami-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-says-bye-to-seattle-moves-to-miami-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon boss Jeff Bezos says bye to Seattle, moves to Miami\u00a0 &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">New York: Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos said he was moving to Miami from the Seattle region, relocating to be closer to his parents and the Cape Canaveral operations of Blue Origin LLC, his space exploration company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bezos \u2014 the world\u2019s third-wealthiest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index \u2014 made the announcement Thursday via Instagram, which included video of him in his Seattle garage where he founded Amazon in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived in Seattle longer than I\u2019ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cAs exciting as the move is, it\u2019s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a place in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 Amazon helped transform Seattle \u2014 the company is the city\u2019s biggest private employer \u2014 into a technology hub with offices in the downtown core. Bezos stepped down as Amazon chief executive officer in 2021 to become the company\u2019s executive chairman. He was succeeded by Andy Jassy.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos bought a seven-bedroom mansion recently in Indian Creek, \u2014 a man-made barrier island in the larger Miami area known as the \u201cBillionaire Bunker.\u201d He also owns homes in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Maui, as well as a 300,000-acre ranch in Texas, the base of the launch site for Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New York: Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos said he was moving to Miami from the Seattle region, relocating to be closer to his parents and the Cape Canaveral operations of Blue Origin LLC, his space exploration company. Bezos \u2014 the world\u2019s third-wealthiest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index \u2014 made the announcement Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11910,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}