Bezos Paid Ex-Amazon Executive $828,000 to Run Pre-K Nonprofit
Michael George got a hefty paycheck in 2021 as president of Bezos Academy, where he spent most of the year overseeing just one school with 13 students.
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A former Amazon.com Inc. vice president was paid more than $800,000 in 2021 to run Jeff Bezos’s preschool network, which, for most of that year, consisted of just one location with 13 students.
Michael George, who spent more than two decades at Amazon, received the pay package while overseeing the Bezos Academy in Des Moines, Washington, a “Montessori-inspired” preschool aimed at low-income children.