2025-07-09
7 分钟The Economist
Hello Mike Bird here cohost of Money Talks
our weekly podcast on markets the economy and business
Welcome to Editor's Picks
We've chosen an article from the latest edition of The Economist
which we very much hope you'll enjoy
Jeff Bezos lives by a simple precept
limit the number of things you would wish you had done differently when you are 80
He calls it with habitual nerdiness the "regretminimisation framework"
In 1994 it led him to forsake cushy work at a hedge fund to start Amazon
It is behind the big bets from the Prime subscription service to AWS cloud computing
that have made the company into a technology titan valued at $23trn—and himself into one of the world's richest people
It also explains why six years ago Mr Bezos left his first wife of 25 years for a former TV presenter Lauren Sánchez
And why he blew on some estimates
$50m to rent out Venice for three days for their opulent nuptials starting on June 26th —
the predictable antiplutocrat pushback be damned
The 61yearold Mr Bezos presumably has an even better idea today
of what his octogenarian self might regret than he did at 31 41 or 51
when his 80th birthday was far off
To get an inkling of his current calculus look at how he spends first his time and second his $240bn fortune