Jeff Bezos Brings the Receipts
The Amazon founder is at war with a tabloid.
Updated at 1:43 p.m. ET on February 8, 2019.
Jeff Bezos does not often speak publicly about his personal life, his philanthropic endeavors, or the future of Amazon, the company he founded 25 years ago. He doesn’t even make a peep on Amazon’s quarterly earnings calls. But on Thursday, he decided to go to war with the National Enquirer on Medium, accusing the publication of “extortion and blackmail.”
The post is, as my colleague Robinson Meyer put it, . “If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?” Bezos writes in the post, which also contains the text of emails the lawyer for his security consultant allegedly. (Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.)
