American author and philanthropist, formerly married to Jeff Bezos, who received approximately $38 billion in Amazon stock in their 2019 divorce and has since become one of the most consequential philanthropists in American history.
Created a radically anti-bureaucratic philanthropic model — giving tens of billions in unrestricted grants to thousands of organizations without requiring lengthy applications — proving that high-speed, high-trust grantmaking could be executed at unprecedented scale.
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