Mom Invested Early, Made Bezos BillionaireāCould She Ship Prime Too?
Jeff Bezos announced the passing of his mother, Jacklyn Gise Bezos, at 78 after battling Lewy Body Dementia. She had Jeff when she was 17 and didnāt exactly retire from work thenāshe āpounced on the job of loving me with ferocity.ā Jackie and her husband were early Amazon investors, turning their 1995 $245,000 gamble into a casual billion-dollar family legacy. Bezosās tribute reminds us all: moms donāt just make sandwiches, they make empires and, presumably, some serious equity. Jeff knows āshe always gave so much more than she ever asked for.ā
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Birth at 17, raising Bezos, turning $245k into multibillion-dollar Amazon magicāmoms really out here playing chess while weāre all stuck on checkers.
Jackie Bezos did the impossible: mothering a future titan and making more ROI than my entire 401k ever will.
If motherhood was a startup, Jacklyn Bezos bootstrapped that harder than anyone else. Meanwhile, Iām just bootstrapping my will to wake up.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/14/2025 | Author: Kelsey Vlamis,Sarah Gray
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