Jeff Bezos knows that he is the richest man in the world and one of the most important at the business level, so in early 2019, he protected himself from any kind of attack inside his office set up on Amazon, the company he founded on July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington, USA, with his then wife Mackenzie Scott (formerly Bezos).
(Jeff Bezos tours the Spheres on the company’s campus in Seattle, Washington. Spheres is a new workspace for Amazon employees that contains hundreds of plant species from cloudy forest environments around the world and maintains a tropical climate similar to that of Costa Rica or Indonesia / Getty Images)
Its office, located in Seattle, is on an elegant skyscraper on the company’s urban campus, “he said.The daily beast“, And is designed to withstand any type of attack against it, from bullets to explosions.
According to information provided by the manufacturer in the aforementioned medium, the Bezos office supports “multiple shots from a military assault rifle, the one-and-a-half-inch-thick fiberglass panels comply with the higher level of resistance to bullets and explosions, ”the report reads. This shows that the CEO of Amazon, The Washington Post and Blue Origin knows that his life costs and that he must be protected.
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This protection project cost Amazon the small amount of $ 180,000, in that year, according to building permits filed with the city of Seattle.
“The Daily Beast” also revealed that there are explosion-proof doors and panic buttons on Amazon.
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According to representation documents before the Stock Exchange and Securities Commission, Bezos ’company, Amazon, invests an average of $ 1.6 million annually to care for its owner when it is off-site, this is one of the personal safety budgets bigger. And it is that the figure of Bezos worldwide has some opponents, such as the time he had a confrontation with the government of Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Or when his extramarital affair was uncovered by a sensationalist tabloid.
Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and his company spent approximately $ 310,000 on security services; Larry Ellison of Oracle spent just over $ 1.6 million to protect him, the same medium reported. For its part, the security project of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, amounted to $ 22.6 million, Business Insider reported, after the controversy faced by this social network, in 2018, on security issues and use of personal data.
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