The billionaire may look like a mogul past his peak, casting around for ways to splash his cash. It is better understood as living a childhood dream, without regrets.
Once Jeff Bezos returns from his honeymoon with Lauren Sánchez, he will return to his other love: Blue Origin. AP
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 “regret-minimisation 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 himself into one of the world’s richest people.
