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Crazy, he's one of those guys that you think will just be at the top forever. Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.

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Retiring at 57 is pretty risky. Hopefully his savings hold out. He's looking at 30 more years of life. Personally I would be too cautious to leave this early.

Edit: risking -> risky; fixed life sentence

Yeah maybe he should've worked a few more years to shore up his net worth a bit, a 50% drop in the market might force him back to work

Hopefully he has enough saved up in his 401k, his situation may be better on traditional 401k vs roth.

What a world we live in where a guy can work for 30+ years in Big Tech and still not be able to comfortably retire.

Yeah, he's just one health crisis from complete bankruptcy. What if he goes to the hospital complaining of a headache and they charge him $182 billion for an aspirin?

He should have bought Bitcoin if he wanted to be really wealthy.

He owns Blue Origin. He can literally go TO THE MOON if he tries. ;-)

It's a joke but with the US healthcare system you never know..

Whether this is satire or serious, I love it.

Yup health insurance is particularly expensive for older Americans!

Super risky.

Assuming he lives past 100, and gets zero interest/return on his ~200 billion net worth, he’ll need to somehow keep his spending below about a thousand dollars a minute to survive.

Sounds like real poverty to me...

> Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.

I like Apple, but there is quite a seam with the Jobs/Cook transition. That seam is the overly minimalistic industrial design patterns witnessed in the butterfly keyboard, vanishing ports, trashcan Mac, etc. They seem to finally be coming around on this.

That's because Ive left. The product pipeline is now getting to the post Ive point and you can see a distinct change.

IMHO Apple are stepping back from the form over function precipice and are being more pragmatic, to the benefit of customers.

Exactly. It seems that while Jobs was able to balance/direct Ive in a constructive way, Cook was not. So at least from the outside Ive started to have an outsized impact on the final product, to the detriment of the product’s final quality. It took Ive’s departure for things for things to go back to normal.

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