Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that he plans to give away most of his wealth during his lifetime to causes such as climate change and humanity projects, but withheld from divulging specific details.
“The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a leveraged way,” Bezos said during a recent CNN interview. “It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates. I’m finding—and I think Lauren is finding the same thing—that philanthropy is very similar. It’s not easy. It’s really hard. And there are a bunch of ways that I think you could do ineffective things, too. So we’re building the capacity to be able to give away this money.”…