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Jeff Bezos Rented an $890/Month Home When He Launched Amazon — Now He Could Blow $890 Every Minute Through New Year's and Still Have $231 Billion Left

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Everyone knows Amazon started in a garage. What most people miss is that the garage was part of a rental. In 1994, Jeff Bezos and then-wife MacKenzie Scott were paying $890 a month for a modest house in Bellevue, Washington. According to The New York Post, they didn't own the place—they leased it. The garage that launched Amazon wasn't attached to a tech compound or a luxury estate. It was borrowed space, ...