“As soon as I heard it, it was love at first sight.” this detail shocked the first wife of Jeff Bezos, Mackenzie Scott.

Back in the 1990s, before Jeff Bezos became the head of Amazon, and when nobody cared about his personal life. He was in his late thirties at the time, and he was comfortable with a Wall Street investment fund. A young woman who works at the same foundation, who recently graduated from Princeton, occupies the office next to Jeff Bezos. Her name is Mackenzie Scott, and she later said in her only television interview to date: Love at first sight.” Then she was the one who found the courage to make the first move and invited Jeff Bezos to dinner.

A burst of laughter at the beginning of everything

Soon, Jeff Bezos will come across a statistic that says that the number of Internet users is increasing by 2,300% annually, a statistic that inspires him with the idea of ​​Amazon: an idea that grew at the same time as his first love affair.

Six months later, Mackenzie and Jeff get married. On the way to Seattle, where they then moved, he witnessed the birth of the e-commerce giant’s first business plan from the passenger seat of his car and unfailingly supported him through his first doubts and first worries. In the early days of Amazon, they are alone against everyone else.

We tend to forget it today, but Mackenzie Scott is Jeff Bezos’ first wife and the mother of his four children, but she’s also the co-founder and early employee of Amazon.