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A look inside the marriage of world's richest couple Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos — who met at work, were engaged within 3 months, and own more land than almost anyone else in America by Áine Cain on Nov 2, 2017, 11:56 AM Advertisement
 • After meeting at D.E. Shaw, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos were married in 1993. • Shortly afterward, the couple relocated to Seattle to found Amazon — MacKenzie was one of the company's first employees. • Today, Jeff Bezos is worth $90.6 billion, making him the world's richest person.
Jeff Bezos wasn't alone when he made his cross-county road trip to Seattle in 1994. And he wasn't alone when he founded Amazon, now an online retail giant some analysts believe will be the world's first trillion-dollar company.
His wife MacKenzie was there for the whole journey. In an interview with CBS, she described watching her husband build Amazon up from scratch: "To me watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure, what is better than that?" Here's a look inside the 24-year marriage of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos. SEE ALSO: A day in the life of the world's richest person, Jeff Bezos — who made $6.44 billion in one day, wakes up without an alarm, and washes dishes after dinner MacKenzie and Jeff first met at investment management firm D.E. Shaw. MacKenzie was a research associate and Jeff was a vice president. Jeff was the first person to interview MacKenzie — a fellow Princeton grad — at the firm.  Source: Business Insider, Forbes, Vogue
"I think my wife is resourceful, smart, brainy, and hot, but I had the good fortune of having seen her résumé before I met her, so I knew exactly what her SATs were," he joked to Vogue.  Source: Vogue
After she landed the job, they became office neighbors. "All day long I listened to that fabulous laugh," she told Vogue. "How could you not fall in love with that laugh?"  Source: Vogue
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