Billionaire Jeff Bezos Says He Didn’t Put All His Eggs in His ‘Space Basket’ and Still Is Very Involved in Amazon —‘I’ve Actually Never Worked Harder’

For most people, retirement means fewer meetings, fewer emails, and maybe finally getting through a morning without checking a calendar. For Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, it apparently means working from nine to seven while splitting his time between rockets and the company he built.

The New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin suggested that Bezos had put "all his eggs in the space basket," pointing to his massive investment in Blue Origin.

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"What do you mean put all my eggs in the space basket?" Bezos asked. Sorkin explained that he meant Bezos had a huge investment in space.

"Yes, but it's not all my eggs. Not all of them," Bezos said at The New York Times DealBook Summit in December 2024. "I still have a huge investment in Amazon. I still spend a lot of time there too. I've actually never worked harder."

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