MacKenzie Scott, every mention

Amazon.com · Acquired Aug 16, 2022 · 26 mentions

• ▶ 35:48 David Rosenthal Mackenzie Scott Tuttle.
• ▶ 35:58 David Rosenthal Count Jeff and Mackenzie would get married.
• ▶ 36:00 David Rosenthal And I think technically Mackenzie was the first Amazon employee.
• ▶ 36:12 Ben Gilbert Certainly, she was already doing work, I think, particularly on accounting, working with legal, kind of setting up the operations of the business, before Jeff hired Shel Kappen, who was the first engineer, the first sort of full-time hire…
• ▶ 36:27 David Rosenthal Yeah, but McKenzie was like,
• ▶ 53:53 David Rosenthal He and Mackenzie, they just got married.
• ▶ 1:00:32 David Rosenthal He met his wife there.
• ▶ 1:00:38 David Rosenthal Let's talk about Shell Cap'n, and the first non-McKenzie employee of Amazon.
• ▶ 1:04:46 David Rosenthal I believe the original intention was Jeff and Mackenzie were gonna move out to Santa Cruz, and they were gonna build Amazon in Silicon Valley.
• ▶ 1:07:07 David Rosenthal You know, the legend is that he and Mackenzie are driving across country.
• ▶ 1:07:35 Ben Gilbert But I think the thing that did happen while Mackenzie is driving and Jeff is sort of working on the drive out is Jeff's on the phone with the lawyer.
• ▶ 1:08:10 David Rosenthal Yeah, supposedly he and Mackenzie both really liked relentless.com.
• ▶ 1:09:56 Ben Gilbert He was interviewing Shell about the early days about this, you know, house that Jeff McKenzie lived in, and they have the garage retrofitted to be an office, Amazon's first office, and Shell is programming sitting in that garage.
• ▶ 1:10:27 David Rosenthal You know, Jeff and Mackenzie had done great at D Shaw.
• ▶ 1:11:03 David Rosenthal Mackenzie's doing all the bookkeeping and is sort of like the first CFO of the company.
• ▶ 1:17:52 David Rosenthal It was summer of 94 when Jeff and Mackenzie leave DeShaw
• ▶ 1:36:08 David Rosenthal Oh, I cannot wait to talk about how Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie got wealthy.
• ▶ 1:58:51 David Rosenthal It would be hubris of Jeff and Joy and Mackenzie and everybody and Chell at Amazon to just say, okay, and not do anything about it, but this is Amazon and they know this is a problem.
• ▶ 2:25:24 David Rosenthal So Jeff and Mackenzie fly down to Silicon Valley.
• ▶ 2:25:36 David Rosenthal Ram, Larry, Sergey, Jeff, Mackenzie.
• ▶ 2:26:05 David Rosenthal So Rahm goes to bath for him, and he convinces Larry and Sergey to take another 250,000 dollars of Jeff and Mackenzie's personal money at the seed price.
• ▶ 2:27:10 Ben Gilbert And McKenzie.
• ▶ 2:27:11 David Rosenthal I think it is probably safe to say that Jeff and McKenzie owned at least one percent of Google.
• ▶ 2:27:38 David Rosenthal So Jeff has never commented, he's been asked, he's never commented on whether or not he and McKenzie sold their Google shares, but they wouldn't have even had a chance to sell before the IPO.
• ▶ 2:27:58 David Rosenthal That's how Jeff and McKenzie got wealthy.
• ▶ 2:29:50 David Rosenthal Unbelievable, bountiful windfall for Jeff and Mackenzie personally.