The Mary’s Place Family Center is connected to one of Amazon’s downtown Seattle office buildings. (Amazon photo)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took some time off his Sunday afternoon to respond to a tweet from Elon Musk, who questioned his Twitter followers about converting Twitter’s headquarters into a homeless shelter.
Musk, head of SpaceX and Tesla, who recently took a board seat at Twitter and last week revealed a 9.2% stake in the social media giant, suggested Twitter could convert its San Francisco headquarters into a shelter “because there’s no one there anyway.” shows up”. On Sunday afternoon, more than 90% of the 1.7 million votes in the poll posted Saturday night selected “yes”.
Bezos, who stepped down as CEO last year but remains chairman at Amazon, retweeted Musk’s tweet saying “or do a part,” linking to GeekWire’s 2020 coverage of a homeless shelter being built at one of the office buildings in downtown Seattle. Amazon is pinned.
Amazon opened The Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade two years ago, and it became a crucial option for people who were homeless during the pandemic. With a capacity of 200 people per night and more than 1,000 family members per year, the shelter is the largest in Washington state. Amazon has pledged $100 million in ongoing support for the facility.
Musk has often called out Bezos on Twitter via space satellites, lunar landers and more, without much response. So it was a bit of a surprise to see how Bezos responded to Musk’s musings online on Sunday.
Musk also tweeted about a edit function for Twitter; remove the “w” in the company name; and changes to the subscription service.
Musk is the world’s richest person, with a net worth of $273 billion. Bezos is in second place, worth $180 billion, according to Forbes.
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