Bezos's Amazonian Grandiosity
Craig Mod:
A couple of points for context:
- A torii is the gate at the entrance to a Shinto temple that separates the sacred from the secular.
- This story is presented as true; I have no reason to doubt it, but I also have no way to verify it. Still, even if it’s fiction, I think it’s the sort of fiction that has a ring of truth to it.
I once took Jeff Bezos (he had been knocked down a rung to the world’s second-richest human at the time) on a little walk around these parts (don’t ask; long story). As we approached the grand torii, I relayed the facts, told him it was the biggest in the world, and he turned to me with the widest eyes I’ve ever seen and said in his singular Jeff Voice: LET’S BUILD A BIGGER ONE!
Things Become Other Things, p. 201