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Amazon Chief Executive Officer offers $2 billion for charity named Bezos Day One Fund

By Valentine Kondo | 7yrs ago

Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos. (Courtesy)

Entrepreneur and successful businessman Jeff Bezos has offered to give 2 billion US dollars from his proceeds to homeless people and charity. through his twitter account post on Thursday.

This comes just months after the Amazon boss was named as the Richest man on Earth by Forbes, a position previously held by Bill Gates- the Microsoft Chief Executive Officer.

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