Scott began working as a research associate at D.E. She studied under, and was an assistant for, noted author Toni Morrison. She attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and then went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in English at Princeton University in 1992. MacKenzie Scott was born in San Francisco, California on April 7, 1970. Her cash balance includes Bloomberg's estimate of the assets she received in the divorce outside of the Amazon shares and has been adjusted to reflect an analysis of dividends, insider transactions, taxes and market performance. When disclosures of her Amazon position show her sharecount is dropped, the liability has been reduced by the value of the sharecount change. Starting in 2021, those gifts were incorporated via a liability. Since she wrote that letter, Scott has announced more than $14 billion worth of charitable gifts. “Happy to be giving him all of my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares,” she wrote.

She wrote about the terms of the divorce in a tweet on April 4, 2019. She's credited with a 2.6% stake based on a January 2023 schedule filing that showed Jeff Bezos had proxy voting power over 266 million shares. Her stake, which she agreed to as part of her divorce with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was first disclosed in an Apfiling to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The majority of Scott's fortune is derived from a 3% stake in Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

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