Nice round numbers

Jeff Bezos commits a heck of a lot of money to fight climate change. Plus, you guys are really nice. And, 7 other things worth a click.

I've been noticing some nice, “round number” anniversaries recently in the worlds I write about—especially the "big entrepreneurship, icon-type people" worlds.

Last month, for example, I jumped all over the significance of the 20th anniversary of when Bill Gates both stepped down as CEO of Microsoft.

This coincided basically with when he put $5 billion into the newly formed Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to jumpstart his future career as an international philanthropist.

Also, I've had my eye on July, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the launch of Amazon.com.

That date will mean that Jeff Bezos isn't just the world's richest person and the founder of Amazon; he's now also one of the longest-tenured big company CEOs in the world.

Yesterday, Bezos announced another nice, big, round number: $10 billion, which is how much he says he'll be devoting to fight climate change.

He announced the initiative on Instagram:

⁣Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet… We can save Earth.…