Could be. Bezos also bought WashingtonPost but he did not run for office.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/mark-zuckerberg-could-be-run...
But Bezos would be more successful I'd think if he wanted to run. Guessing, in general, people have a more agreeable attitude towards Amazon and by extension, Bezos than Facebook and Zuckerberg.
Maybe due to his age? as he has seen more shades of life than Zuck
Bezos has a much lower public profile. Apparently he's a libertarian. It's easy to portray him as everything that is wrong with American economic life — he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely successful company, while paying countless workers barely enough to live — so it's hard to see him as a viable candidate.
I think that's what I was going for. A lower public profile is better than a public profile with lots of mixed things (say good stuff like charities and bad ones like the CA scandal). And maybe people are also more practical, they are ordering tons of stuff from Amazon, it gets delivered to their door, the see the log on the boxes as they are opening them etc. So it is associated with success, something tangible, something that "works well" more or less.
> he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely
Was just thinking between the ultrarich (assuming billionaires running the country is now the new norm), which ones would have a better chance if they tried.
The left hates him because of the way he runs Amazon, the right hates him because he owns a media outlet that isn't Fox News style right-wing propaganda.
And the center effectively doesn't exist; political opinion is distributed closer to bimodally than unimodally.
So, I don't think Bezos would do nearly as well running for office as influencing behind the scenes. Zuck was probably better off, in terms of electoral politics, before Cambridge Analytica, now he's in a pretty similar place.
I'd argue "prestige" but given some previous (and current) holders of the position I don't think that's the case either.
No way. Being President gives you the supreme power. He can launch new policies; which can have a huge impact on your business. His one tweet can send your stock up or down by a good amount