2025-07-09
7 分钟The Economist Hello, Mike Bird here, co-host of Money Talks,
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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 wish you were done differently when you are 80.
He calls it, with habitual nerdiness, the regret minimization 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 $2.3 trillion,
and he 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 Sanchez,
and why he blew on some estimates $50 million to rent out Venice for three days for their opulent nuptials starting on June 26.
The predictable anti-Plutocrat pushback be damned.
The 61-year-old 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 $240 billion fortune.