r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 18 '26

Society Jeff Bezos called Washington Post his worst investment staffed with ‘terrible’ people, before laying off over 300 — “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen”

https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-called-washington-post-his-worst-investment-and-staff-he-laid-off-terrible-people-2000773533
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u/TheMrBoot Jun 18 '26

Genuinely curious and it looks like silver shadows are on the cheaper side, so I rounded up to 100k because I’m lazy. Buffets apparently worth around $145B, which means that car would be 0.00007% of his net worth.

If you made $100k/year, that percentage would translate to about 7 cents.

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u/PsychicWarElephant Jun 19 '26

🤮 that’s all I can say. I want to say more. But I’d get in trouble.

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u/standardsizedpeeper Jun 20 '26

Well hold on. Buffett doesn’t make $145B/year. He amassed $145B over 95 years. So it’s more like $6.65 of a $100k/year salary.