Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stated it was time to bust out the tequila.
Standing by the seashore, the celebrity wrestler and film star place his arm about Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc’s founder. Bezos, in sunglasses, smiled for a image and then shared it on the ‘gram. The males had just announced a film deal for Amazon Studios.
Bezos, 57, is stepping down as Amazon’s CEO on Monday. He’ll stay executive chairman and the company’s greatest shareholder, but his Instagram account shows he has lots of other interests to occupy his time.
The science fiction fan is preparing a joy ride to suborbital space with his greatest pal and brother, Mark, this month, one current post stated. In a different, Bezos is behind the wheel of an electric pickup truck constructed by Rivian, a startup that Amazon funded, traversing the desert in a cowboy hat to see a rocket capsule land.
The final frontier has lengthy beckoned Bezos, who has poured billions of dollars into his enterprise Blue Origin to market tourism and infrastructure in space. The venture’s 1st crewed flight is to embark July 20, much less than two weeks soon after Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to commence a new epoch of travel beyond earth.
Bezos leaves Amazon’s former cloud computing chief Andy Jassy to run a enterprise that is larger and more important than ever. It’s unclear how Bezos will govern from the sidelines.
Bezos, a hedge fund executive turned garage entrepreneur, lengthy defined Amazon’s culture, via small business adages like “customer obsession” and “have backbone; disagree and commit,” as properly as curt emails to his group bearing just a query mark.
Neither Amazon nor Bezos responded to a request for comment.
Bezos stated in an April letter to investors that he would focus on new initiatives as executive chair and generating Amazon a much better spot to work. That followed employee aggravation that surfaced in the course of a failed unionization campaign in Alabama.
His Instagram, even though, spotlights his interest in Tinsel Town. Bezos posted about Oscar nods and Golden Globe wins for Amazon Studios, and in the course of his last annual meeting as CEO he talked about re-imagining screen heroes for the 21st century via Amazon’s deal to invest in MGM.
(Not featured on his Instagram is a yacht, longer than a football field, which Bezos reportedly owns and which will come with a assistance yacht and helipad as soon as it really is constructed, according to Bloomberg News. His companion, Lauren Sanchez, is a helicopter pilot.)
Bezos has also met with public officials to draw consideration to his philanthropy. He discussed his climate efforts with French President Emmanuel Macron and gave Washington Governor Jay Inslee a tour of a homeless shelter, his posts show.
He’s had some entertaining with music stars Katy Perry, Lil Nas X and Lizzo, also.
He posted from the Super Bowl in 2020, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% @lizzobeeating’s biggest fan.”