Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stated it was time to bust out the tequila.

Standing by the seashore, the superstar wrestler and movie star put his arm round Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder. Bezos, in sun shades, smiled for an image after which shared it on the ‘gram. The males had simply introduced a film deal for Amazon Studios.

Bezos, 57, is stepping down as Amazon’s CEO on Monday. He’ll stay govt chairman and the corporate’s greatest shareholder, however his Instagram account exhibits he has loads of different pursuits to occupy his time.

The science fiction fan is planning a pleasure trip to suborbital area together with his finest buddy and brother, Mark, this month, one latest submit stated. In one other, Bezos is behind the wheel of an electrical pickup truck constructed by Rivian, a startup that Amazon funded, traversing the desert in a cowboy hat to see a rocket capsule land.

The last frontier has lengthy beckoned Bezos, who has poured billions of {dollars} into his firm Blue Origin to advertise tourism and infrastructure in area. The enterprise’s first crewed flight is to embark July 20, lower than two weeks after Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to start a brand new epoch of journey past earth.

Bezos leaves Amazon’s former cloud computing chief Andy Jassy to run an organization that’s larger and extra beneficial than ever. It’s unclear how Bezos will govern from the sidelines.

Bezos, a hedge fund govt turned storage entrepreneur, lengthy outlined Amazon’s tradition, by means of enterprise adages like “customer obsession” and “have backbone; disagree and commit,” in addition to curt emails to his staff bearing only a query mark.

Neither Amazon nor Bezos responded to a request for remark.

Bezos stated in an April letter to traders that he would concentrate on new initiatives as govt chair and making Amazon a greater place to work. That adopted worker frustration that surfaced throughout a failed unionisation marketing campaign in Alabama.

His Instagram, although, spotlights his curiosity in Tinsel Town. Bezos posted about Oscar nods and Golden Globe wins for Amazon Studios, and through his final annual assembly as CEO he talked about re-imagining display screen heroes for the twenty first century by means of Amazon’s deal to purchase MGM.

(Not featured on his Instagram is a yacht, longer than a soccer subject, which Bezos reportedly owns, and which can include a help yacht and helipad as soon as it is constructed, in accordance with Bloomberg News. His accomplice, Lauren Sanchez, is a helicopter pilot.)

Bezos has additionally met with public officers to attract consideration to his philanthropy. He mentioned his local weather efforts with French President Emmanuel Macron and gave Washington Governor Jay Inslee a tour of a homeless shelter, his posts present.

He’s had some enjoyable with music stars Katy Perry, Lil Nas X, and Lizzo, too.

He posted from the Super Bowl in 2020, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% @lizzobeeating’s biggest fan.”

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