It is the best time for a move.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that he will leave the birthplace of his trillion-dollar company for the warmth of Florida, where he recently snapped up several mega-mansions.
Bezos, 59, revealed he was leaving his former home in Seattle in a nostalgic Instagram post, along with a video of his much younger self showing off Amazon’s original headquarters in his garage.
“It doesn’t take long to tour the offices of Amazon.com, Inc.,” the CEO, then 30, says of the one-room office.
His father, behind the camera, cheered his future billionaire son: “We are in the nerve center!”
Bezos said he would leave the dreary northwest city behind to follow his parents, who also recently moved to Miami, where the family lived during Bezos’ high school years.
The move is also motivated in part by Blue Origin, its space exploration company, whose “operations are increasingly moving to Cape Canaveral.”
His fiancée, media personality Lauren Sanchez, 53, will also make the cross-country trip.
“I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami,” Bezos wrote.
Jeff Bezos announced that he would move to Miami from Seattle, the birthplace of Amazon.BLOOMBERG NEWS
“Seattle has been my home since 1994, when I started Amazon in my garage,” Bezos wrote in the Instagram caption.
“I have lived in Seattle longer than anywhere else and have many wonderful memories here. As exciting as the move is, it is an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
The announcement comes just two weeks after the world’s third-richest man bought a $79 million mansion on Florida’s exclusive Billionaire Bunker Island, next to a $68 million property he purchased two months ago. before.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 in the garage of his Seattle home.jeffbezos/Instagram “It doesn’t take long to tour the offices of Amazon.com, Inc.,” Bezos joked in the 1994 video. jeffbezos/Instagram
The two sprawling properties occupy more than 3 acres of land on the man-made barrier island Indian Creek Island, a fortress that sits on the outskirts of Biscayne Bay and has its own municipality, mayor and police force.
The most expensive home, a 19,064-square-foot abode built in 2000, features seven bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a pool, theater, library, wine cellar, sauna, utility room and six garage spaces.
By comparison, the neighboring 9,259-square-foot mansion he bought in August has just three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Bezos bought two neighboring mansions in Miami’s “Billionaire Bunker” on Indian Creek Island, near Miami.Romain Maurice/MEGA His fiancée, media personality Lauren Sanchez, 53, is also moving across the country.EOUS /SplashNews.com
He reportedly plans to demolish the miserable pad and build a new palatial mega-mansion.
He took over the adjoining properties, investing a staggering $147 million in the island, months after proposing to Sánchez with a colossal diamond valued at $2.5 million.
Bezos also owns a 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which is near the base of Blue Origin, the private space company he founded, as well as a $96 million apartment on Fifth Avenue that occupies all 21 floors. to the 24th of a building overlooking Madison. Plaza Park.
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