{"id":962583,"date":"2025-09-18T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962583"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:42:38","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-says-he-is-proud-of-his-salary-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/18\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-says-he-is-proud-of-his-salary-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he is proud of his salary package \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once revealed that he never took additional compensation during his tenure as the CEO, saying he was proud of this decision to forgo the stock grants and bonuses, despite leading one of world\u2019s most valuable companies. Speaking at the 2024 New York Times DealBook Summit, Bezos revealed that he asked the Amazon broad to \u201cnot to give me any comp,\u201d citing his substantial ownership stake in the company. \u201cI already owned a significant amount of the company, and I just didn\u2019t feel good about taking more\u2026 I just felt how could I possibly need more incentive?\u201d he said. Bezos reportedly took a pay check of $80,000 annually as the CEO of Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>A founder\u2019s philosophy on wealth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once revealed that he never took additional compensation during his tenure as the CEO, saying he was proud of this decision to forgo the stock grants and bonuses, despite leading one of world\u2019s most valuable companies. Speaking at the 2024 New York Times DealBook Summit, Bezos revealed that he asked the Amazon broad to \u201cnot to give me any comp,\u201d citing his substantial ownership stake in the company. \u201cI already owned a significant amount of the company, and I just didn\u2019t feel good about taking more\u2026 I just felt how could I possibly need more incentive?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}