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Jeff Bezos and his millionaire neighbors live on a luxurious artificial island to which something basic is missing: he has no sewerage

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Indian Creek It is an artificial island on the Miami coast known for its multimillionaire residents and its extraordinary privacy. That has given him the nickname Billionaire Bunker. Figures like Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos, in fact, bought three mansions on the island and is building its main residence), Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and even Julio Iglesias They have bought properties in this exclusive enclave. The island is connected to the continent only by a small bridge guarded by its own police, which makes it one of the most closed and monitored communities in the United States. However, as highlighted in The local pressin this luxurious paradise where most mansions have an average of 10 bathrooms, no one has taken into account How to delete properly the waste they generate. Millionaires in a Ciénaga. By not having sewerage infrastructure given the isolated character of the enclave, Indian Creek’s homes depend on individual septic tanks, located dangerously close to Bay of Biscay. This proximity has turned the graves into a constant source of pollution. According to published The New York Timesa 2018 study already warned of the high pollution indices of these septic tanks due to the sewage leaks To the bay. These leaks not only affect Water health that surround the island, but also to marine ecosystems. Neighbor, do you have a sewer left over? Given this situation, the Indian Creek government raised a possible solution: send its wastewater to the sewerage system of the neighboring town, Surfside, located on the other side of the bridge that communicates them with the mainland. However, Surfside responded in a diplomatic but firm way. Connect to the sewerage system that have paid and maintained their neighbors has a cost: 10 million dollars. For his part, Indian Creek considered the petition as an act of “extortion” and decided to look for alternatives that would not imply paying the neighbors the 10 million dollars hitch rate. The law of the sewer. One of these alternatives is to raise a claim to the government of the state of Florida since there is a state law that would force surfesides to accept the wastewater of its military neighbors to Eliminate septic tanks. According to that law, conveniently approved in June 2025, includes a provision that prohibits municipalities from blocking or charging for certain sewerage connections. According to published he Miami Heraldthis measure would prevent localities such as Surfside to reject projects such as Indian Creek or impose connection tolls to their sewerage lines, although they directly affect their urban infrastructure. If you use our sewers you are one of ours. In response, Surfside authorities raised a legal counterpart: if an acceptable agreement was not reached, they could contemplate the possibility of annexing Indian Creek to their municipality, so that both entities share fiscal and maintenance obligations. According to surfeside leaders, the Urban growth and the environmental pressure generated by Indian Creek justifies a formal solution and a common responsibility. Both populations are communicated by a bridge, so all the traffic and services that the island of the Millionaires needs compulsively passes through the streets of Surfsis. A private pipe. Rejecting the idea of annexation to Surfside, Indian Creek has designed an independent infrastructure project that consists in building its own sewerage system. This plan includes placing an underground pipe that would pass under the streets of Surfsis along one kilometer until reaching the Bay Harbor Islands sewerage network. In this way, the waste would leave the island without formalizing a connection with the system of its immediate neighbor. Stephen J. Helfman, Indian Creek’s lawyer, assured to The New York Times that “the preliminary works and preparation works for the future sewerage line will begin next month.” Meanwhile, the mayor of Surfsis, Charles Burkett, who initially requested the 10 million dollars, was more conciliatory after knowing that the law prevents him from refusing to facilitate the construction of that new sewerage line. “We hope to work with Indian Creek to help them achieve their goals with the least possible impact for our residents,” Burkett said. In Xataka | Billionaires prepare their mansions for apocalypse: luxury bunkers have become a trend Image | Flickr (Smithsonian)

If the question is how to make a team more productive, the answer according to Jeff Bezos is clear: with two pizzas

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Amazon is one of the world’s largest companies and Jeff Bezosits founder and former CEO, one of the richest people. In a company like Amazon, productivity, Talent management and the synchronization of the equipment is very important and that everything flows in the best possible way a rule as curious as useful and interesting is responsible: that of the two -pizz teams. The “problem” of the scale. As Explain Daniel Slater, World Innovation Culture Director at Amazon Aws, When Amazon began It was structured “to achieve rapid agility and offer constant value to customers.” Amazon was, at that time, an “inventing machine.” That is why hiring and organizational structure were prioritized. The problem is that Amazon, which started as an electronic commerce, climbed. Climbed, and how. When the company was smaller, the teams “were more centralized and closely linked”, but as the firm began to grow this structure resulted in greater slowness and inefficiency. To face it “we radically change our technical architecture to what is known as Microservice architecture“, explains Slater.” We discourage our monolithic architecture in a vast network of unique and independent services “, which allowed to launch news and offers faster. But that’s not all. According to Slater, to maximize the ability to remain close to users and their needs, at the same time that new products and services are launched, Amazon invented a new way of organizing the equipment. Instead of large teams, the firm opted for smaller and agile teams capable of taking advantage of the architecture of microservices. For this, a fairly peculiar rule was used. The teams of two pizzas. The concept is quite simple and is that no team should be so large that more than two pizzas are needed to feed it. Not because A Amazon make a hole in accounting Buy a median of three more ingredients in the nearest Domino’s, but because “the smallest teams minimize the lines of communication and reduce the general expenses of bureaucracy and decision making.” It is assumed that with Two pizzas They can eat about ten people, although that is an opinion that would be willing to fight with nails and teeth. In any case, “the two -pizz teams” is a somewhat searched form to refer to teams of less than ten people. This size “allows two -pizz teams to spend more time focusing on their customers and constantly experiencing and innovating for their benefit,” says Slater. Does the team need three pizzas to eat? Well, then it’s too big | Image: Pexels The advantages of small equipment. As they expose from Amazon, small teams increase “involvement and training” and reduce the known as Ringelmann effect (Individual productivity is reduced as the group becomes larger, and vice versa). Citing the Hackman and Vidmar studyAmazon says that the smallest teams “also increase employee satisfaction” since “in large teams, individual contributions are less recognizable and individual involvement on specific areas becomes more diffuse.” These small teams, say from Amazon, also allow to experience faster and reduce the cost of failure. A TEAM, A PRODUCT. How do you implement these “two -pizzas teams”? Easy: a equipment for each product or service. In the words of Daniel Slater: “Instead of maintaining complex systems or solving problems that cover multiple services, business lines or customer segments, two pizzas equipment focus on a single service or offer, and only on customers that use it. This unique approach favors effectiveness and scalability.” More pizzas. If the team grows, something likely if the needs increase, “we look for ways to divide it into separate equipment of two pizzas that work in a sub -section of the service with a single subprocess.” However, from Amazon they are aware that this structure is not for everyone and has its counterpart. “Two -pizz teams are not perfect, and are not immune to limitations; an example is that with so many autonomous teams, of a single process, which They work quickly To meet the needs of their own clients, there is the risk of duplication and development in silos, “says Slater. It is also necessary to collaborate between teams so that rapid experimentation is effective, as well as for Share errors and learning. Image | Flickr (Smithsonian Institution), Pexels *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2025

This literary science fiction utopia advocates the disappearance of millionaires. And Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg love

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The saga of ‘the culture’ of Iain M. Banks is one of the series of Science fiction books most important and influential of the history of gender. And among his fans are names as notorious of the Tech sector as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg either Jeff Bezos. What is still curious: the message and background of the saga are in one direction, it could be said, diametrically opposite to the businesses led by these billionaires. So … why do you like so much? The culture of ‘culture’. The saga consists of no less than ten books, the first of them written in 1987 and the last in 2012. In them there is a society in which the pan-human (similar to us in appearance, but without being completely clear what relationship they keep with humanity) coexist with artificial intelligences, having overcome any problem of scarcity of the past. All citizens can careless work: technology takes care of everything. Until death is a problem of the past: diseases have been left behind, and minds can move from one body to another when bodies do not give more. Below the work. ‘Culture ‘is one of the most clearly positioned science fiction works in political terms, already a difference from conservative thought classics such as’ the rebel rebellion’ of Ayn Rand Or allegations of white supremacism not very camouflaged such as ‘The landing’ or ‘Turner’s newspapers’, leans towards the socialist utopia, more in the line of other classications such as ‘Iron heel’ by Jack London. In the Society of ‘Culture’ goals are reached Socialist theory: Post-scarce society, abolition of money and private property, radical equality, voluntary work, collective management, absence of coercive laws, personal freedom … an authentic utopia. Stones to the roof itself. And since there are no inequalities for economic reasons, the same concept of oligarchs is aberrant. Banks hated the idea that a lot of money will concentrate on a few hands. As he exposed This article in Voxthe solution to antisocial behavior in ‘culture’ is not the legal punishment, but to make the offender a social out of theory, cancellation. Something against what they have manifested openly These billionaires. And well, then there is the subject of the genre completely fluid in this utopian society: the rigid genres are completely overcome. And we already know how little they like Musk, Bezos either Zuckerberg LGTBI ideas. What do you see? It is clear What do they like about ‘the culture’ then: The fascinating vision of technology as a solution to all problems. From facilitating the most daily tasks to overcome in space battles, everything is mediated by artificial technology and intelligences. Of course, for Banks technology is not an end in itself, but a tool in search of a more just and equitable society. And without millionaires. But it is easy for these oligarchs of technology to skip that part, because the comfortable is to get carried away by the sissured show that also proposes ‘culture’ (which are adventure novels, not thesis). Of course, it should be noted that there are voices, such as The journalist Max Readwho affirm that perhaps Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg have not completely misunderstood ‘culture’. Especially if we compare it with the findings of the other utopia par excellence of science fiction, ‘the dispossessed’ of Ursula K. Leguinis of dyes closest to anarchism. Possessing utopias. As technology is more complex, the bridges of understanding between science fiction and innovation are more constant. Science fiction has helped us to imagine the future and carry it out, and therefore the technological elites of Silicon Valley have reinterpreted utopias as inspiration, and even sometimes as Brandingas Musk did Putting Space X ship namesinspiring Neuralink’s own concept and defining itself as an “utopian anarchist of those described by Iain M. Banks.” He is not the only one who appropriates the saga: Bezos will adapt the first book of ‘La Cultura’ In Prime Video. And Zuckerberg promoted the saga in your reading club In 2015. However, this possession of the ideas of Banks or other utopias as a generator of imaginary and technological concepts has very obvious inconveniences when it goes from socialist utopia to business narrative. The critical sense of literary works is diluted and enters a paradox: that of the technocratic utopia. Banks is not here to meet her, but something tells us that he would have produced chills. In Xataka | The groundbreaking world of Chinese science fiction: this is the literature from which ‘the problem of the three bodies “has come out”

After matching his space bet, Jeff Bezos has invested in the other great Elon Musk project: electric cars

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Jeff Bezos is financing under a startup of electric vehicles called Slate Auto, which works since 2022 in a Pickup Compact and affordable with an expected price of $ 25,000, as it has revealed Techcrunch. Why is it important. This investment is a very different approach to the one followed by the majority of electric startups, which have opted for luxury models with high margins. Slate Auto changes the usual strategy when directing directly to the mass market, that of the general public. And just at a time when the growth of some brands has slowed down. In the case of Tesla, has collapsed. Between bambalins. The company was born as part of Re Manufacturing, another company supported by Bezos and co -founded by Jeff Wilke, former CEO of Amazon Consumer. Since then, he has attracted several executives from Ford, GM, Stellantis and Harley-Davidson, in addition to several former Amazon ex-employed. The figures. Slate raised at least 111 million dollars in a series A round in 2023, and according to documents from the state of Delaware mentioned by Motorpasionhas authorized about 500 million preferential shares for a series B $ 2.37 per share. That is, almost 1.2 billion dollars. In addition to Bezos, the company has the investment of Mark Walter, majority owner of the Dodgers, a baseball team, and Thomas Tull, main re manufacturing investor. The strategy. The Pickup of two Slate places follow a minimalist philosophy inspired by the Ford Model T and the Volkswagen Beetle. The company’s plan is to compensate for the low margins of the vehicle with an accessories line for customization, similar to the Harley-Davidson business model or division Mopar of Stellantis. And now what. Slate plans to start production at the end of 2026 in an installation in Indiana. During these days a prototype of the car in Los Angeles has been sighted and photographed, showing a simple and functional design, published in Reddit and collected by Carscoops. Far away from the futuristic lines of a possible rival like the Cybertruck of Tesla. Expected that, after the exclusive Techcrunch And the first photo of the prototype, the company is encouraged to share some more information than until now, where it has been cryptic in its communications. Outstanding image | Reddit In Xataka | The problem of US cars in Europe is not tariffs: they are not interested in the least

Applying Jeff Bezos’ investment philosophy

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Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most beloved international athletes by the public thanks to the charism that has demonstrated both on and off the court. His 19 years of sports career contributed the most prestigious trophies and awards, but attributes his great fortune to A advice from Jeff Bezos. The Jeff Bezos effect. According to The American medium Celebrity Net WorthShaquille O’Neal has an estimated assets of 500 million dollars. The popular NBA player, revealed In an interview for The Wall Street Journal How he managed to multiply his fortune by four. The secret of its financial success lies in a significant change in its way of investing. O’Neal decided to adopt the investment philosophy of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. “I heard Jeff Bezos say once he makes his investments based on whether they are going to change people’s lives. Once I began to use that strategy, I think I probably quadrupled my heritage,” explained the former sportsman. Invest in what you think. The change of approach inspired by Bezos led O’Neal to assess the sense of investments and not so much short -term profitability. As explained in the interview, the athlete tries to invest in those proposals that are aligned with their personal values ​​and tastes. “When I do business it is never the economic aspect. It’s about changing people’s lives,” said the former Lakers player. That led him to invest in companies that did products that he liked. Among its investment portfolio we find the Apple technology, the Pope John’s pizzas, the Five Guys hamburgers or Krispy Kreme’s breakfasts. “Krispy Kreme makes fabulous donuts. I met them at the university and I have been in love with their donuts since then and now I have some of their franchises. I will try to get some more. I want to be part of that business, “O’Neal confessed. Google’s miracle. During his interview, O’Neal confessed that one of his best investments by far almost by chance. Someone came to tell him about a new technological company that was taking off. It turned out to be Google. The millionaire did not give details about the amount of investment, but according to data from the Investment portal The Montley Foolan investment of $ 10,000 in Google in 2004, today it would be valued at more than $ 300,000. “I invested in it and completely forgot. After time I read an article about the great success of the first investors,” said the four -time NBA champion. Jeff Bezos took Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ advice made, for the hazards of destiny, Shaquille O’Neal did a good business at the expense of Amazon. O’Neal wanted to improve the safety of his home, so he decided to try some Ring home products. What he saw so much that he not only bought the products, but also invested in the company. In 2018, Amazon bought ring for 1 billion, multiplying the initial investment of O’Neal. Invest in companies, not in benefits. The investment philosophy that has led Shaquille O’Neal to success It is not very different of which the fortune of one of the investors has been holding for six decades more respected from Wall Street: Warren Buffett. According to Buffett, the Secret to hit It is investing in business models, with stable economic characteristics and reliable managers, maintaining their positions for long periods, instead of operating based on short -term price fluctuations. Like O’Neal, Buffett has been investing in products that he personally consumes, as in Coca-Cola, the brand that manufactures Your favorite soda. In Xataka | Jeff Bezos has built a successful empire: six fears have defined his career Image | Flickr (Ukinusa, Techcrunch)

The Washington Post had always been a progressive newspaper. Jeff Bezos has just decided that it is over

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Jeff Bezos, the third greatest fortune in the world and owner of the Washington Post, has generated An intense debate In the media panorama after publishing In his X profile Your intention to apply a radical change In the editorial line of the newspaper’s opinion section, focusing exclusively on two pillars: personal freedoms and free market. This turn has caused the resignation of the opinion editor, David Shipley, as well as that of Other historical journalists of the medium, and has been interpreted as a movement towards a most aligned ideological posture with the values ​​of capitalism and conservative policies of the current government of Donald Trump. Bezos’s message. As Bezos wrote, this decision responds to the need to adapt and differentiate itself in the digital age, where the Internet already offers a diversity of opinions. “There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, could have seen it as a service to take to the reader’s door every morning a wide -based opinion section that tried to cover all the points of view. Today, the Internet does that work,” Bezos wrote in his statement. Change lamented by some, held by others. The change He has raised criticism Among the historical editors of the medium, and is perceived as a limitation to plurality that historically characterized the opinion tribune of the Washington Post. “I am from the United States and I am in favor of the United States, and I am proud of it. Our country did not become like others, and much of the success of the United States has been freedom in the economic sphere and everywhere. Freedom is ethical – it minimizes coercion – and practice – impuls Infraerentized in the current media landscape. On the other hand, outstanding personalities of the sphere of the Republican Party, such as Charlie Kirk, founder of TURNING Point USA, They praised the change. Elon Musk, main competition of Bezos in the space race, Applauded Jeff Bezos’ decision publishing a message on his social network “Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”. Touch the image to go to the original message The culmination of a turn. This announcement represents the culmination of the turn in the editorial line of the media, which began to demonstrate after the order that Jeff Bezos sent to those responsible for the newspaper withdrawing support of the Washington Post to the Democratic candidacy of Kamala Harris before the presidential elections. That decision placed the American environment In a position of equidistancewhich is now completed with a positioning towards Republican postulates. Long Democratic Tradition. As publishes EFE, the newspaper had maintained support for Democratic candidacies since 1976 (with the only exception of the 1988 candidacy). The newspaper supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections and Joe Biden in 2020, in which both faced Donald Trump, maintaining a very critical editorial line with the New York millionaire during his first term. The positioning of the Washington Post In the last elections It was the first time, since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper in 2013, that the millionaire intervened in the newspaper of the newspaper. Another prominent fact in the change in the editorial line of the Washington Post was Waiver of the cartoonist Ann Telnaes after the rejection of the means of publishing a drawing in which Jeff Bezos and other executives of large corporations were seen leaning before a statue of Donald Trump. Millionaires and Trump’s influence. This change reflects a broader tendency among technological leaders who fight for occupying a place in the area of ​​influence of President Donald Trump and obtaining A favorable treatment for your companies. Elon Musk, he won his position as the right hand of the president and executor of the Cutting policies initiated by Doge being The main donor in the electoral campaign of Donald Trump. Other magnates like Mark Zuckerberg, have adjusted the Moderation policies in goal to align with the postulates of the Trump administration. For his part, Tim Cook recently announced A multimillionaire investment Apple in the United States, aligning the company with the wishes of the new president of industrial reinvestment in the United States. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Dvids (Anthony Nelson)

Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are candidates

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2024 was a year especially good for big fortunes in which, except some exceptionsall increased their assets. This growth trend has changed the forecasts regarding the idea that, in the next ten years, one of these billionaires will become a billionaire, accumulating wealth in excess of a trillion dollars. According to a report that Oxfam Intemón has presented during the Davos Summit 2025the accumulation of wealth has become so extreme that the forecast now is that up to five billionaires will exceed that trillion-dollar ceiling in the next ten years. Fortunes accelerate. According to Oxfam Intermón, previous forecasts that a person could reach a fortune exceeding one trillion dollars (European trillion, not American), have become obsolete following the rapid growth rate recorded by large fortunes during 2024. The humanitarian organization highlights that, during the fiscal year 2024, large fortunes tripled the rate of increase in your assets with respect to 2023. According to data from Oxfam Intermón“in 2024, the number of billionaires was already 2,769, compared to 2,565 the previous year, and their combined wealth increased from 13 to 15 trillion dollars in just 12 months. This is the second largest increase in the combined wealth of billionaires in a single year, since records have been kept”. The year of AI and the space race. This accelerated growth of the largest fortunes is mainly due to two important factors: the rise in the development of AI and the beginning of private space race. In the heat of the development of AI, the fortunes of some of its protagonists have increased, such as meteoric rise of Jensen Huang to the top of the millionaire lists, of Larry Ellison or of Mark Zuckerberg. The space race has two proper names: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Both millionaires have placed their aerospace companies among the best valued, and the contracts with NASA They have provided them with a good financial cushion. The case of Bezos and Musk is especially notable because both millionaires “play both sides” because their companies They are also at the forefront of AI development. Trump’s victory has influenced. The Oxfam Intermón report noted that “this growing concentration of wealth is possible thanks to a monopolistic concentration of power, in which billionaires exercise more and more influence over industries and public opinion.” The victory of Donald Trump and the closing of the ranks of big technology companies supporting the new president has been another important factor in the increase in the forecast that up to five billionaires will exceed one trillion dollars in the next decade. The now president of the United States has demonstrated it in his first decreeslegislating for prioritize interests of these companies around the world and, therefore, boosting the fortunes of their founders and CEOs. Elon Musk was already a candidate. With a fortune of $432.6 billion, Elon Musk is currently the richest person in the world, according to the list of millionaires of Forbes. As such, he already appeared in all the pools as a candidate to be one of the first billionaires in history. The businessman of South African origin beat a double record at the end of 2024: he managed to surpass the threshold of $400 billion and did so by almost doubling his fortune in just two months. Added to these estimates is the foreseeable growth in the assets of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison or Jensen Huang, before a deregulated scene in which the large corporations on which their fortunes are based will have fewer legal restrictions on expanding. In Xataka | Trump has made big technology companies change, but not because of ideology: they are companies behaving like companies Image | Meta, Blue Origin, Flickr (Government of India)

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