It’s prime time to move.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that he is leaving the birthplace of his trillion-dollar company for the warmth of Florida — where he recently snapped up several mega-mansions.
Bezos, 59, revealed he was leaving his old home in Seattle in a nostalgic Instagram post, paired with a throwback video of his much younger self showing Amazon’s original headquarters that he ran out of his garage.
“It doesn’t take long to visit the offices of Amazon.com, Inc,” the 30-year-old CEO said of the one-room office.
His father, from behind the camera, cheers on his soon-to-be-billionaire son: “We’re at the nerve center!”
Bezos said he would leave the notoriously bleak northwestern city to follow his parents, who also recently moved to Miami, where the family lived during Bezos’ high school years.
The move was also partly driven by Blue Origin – his space exploration company – whose “operations are increasingly shifting to Cape Canaveral.”
His fiancee, media personality Lauren Sanchez, 53, will also make the cross-country move.
“I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami,” Bezos wrote.
Jeff Bezos announced he is moving to Miami from Seattle, the birthplace of Amazon.BLOOMBERG NEWS
“Seattle has been my home since 1994 when I started Amazon out of my garage,” Bezos wrote in an Instagram caption.
“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here. While the move was exciting, it was an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
The announcement comes just two weeks after the world’s third-richest man bought a $79 million mansion on Florida’s exclusive “Billionaire Bunker” island next to a $68 million estate he acquired two months earlier.
Bezos started Amazon in 1994 in the garage of his home in Seattle.jeffbezos/Instagram “It doesn’t take long to visit the offices of Amazon.com, Inc,” Bezos quipped in the 1994 video. jeffbezos/Instagram
The two sprawling properties take up more than 3 acres of land on the man-made barrier island of Indian Creek Island, a fortress that sits on the edge of Biscayne Bay, and has its own municipality, mayor and police force.
The more expensive home, a 19,064-square-foot residence built in 2000, has seven bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a swimming pool, theater, library, wine cellar, sauna, maid’s quarters and six garage spaces.
By comparison, the neighboring 9,259-square-foot house he bought last August has only three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
He reportedly plans to destroy the measles pad and build a new luxury megamansion.
Bezos bought two neighboring mansions in “Miami’s Billionaire Bunker” on Indian Creek Island near Miami.Romain Maurice/MEGA
He scooped up the property next door – sinking a staggering $147 million into the island – months after proposing to Sanchez with a massive diamond reportedly worth $2.5 million.
Bezos also owns a 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which is near the base of Blue Origin, the private space company he founded, as well as a $96 million Fifth Avenue apartment that occupies the entire 21st through 24th floors of a building overlooking Madison Square Garden.
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