>>Jeff himself has said Amazon would not exist without Mackenzie...
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Men say a lot of things to their wives that can't be literally true. You have to say these things to ensure they don't feel useless in what is the most successful business of the century.
When you are in a relationship, especially if you are the CEO of Amazon, you don't exactly speak in clojure.core.logic you use a lot of poetic metaphors to ensure your spouse feels important and relevant to your world shattering cause.
Smarter people like Trump make their spouse sign a book thick nuptial agreements. Im sure the women themselves don't really care, getting married to a billionaire is something nearly all women in the world don't get an opportunity to do.
There are also couples like the Clintons who understand how it all works, and are pragmatic enough to move on.