> The Jeff Bezos-owned site can be an ugly place to be.
Jeff Bezos doesn't own Goodreads. Sorry to be pedantic, but this has come up a couple times recently, so it's becoming a pet peeve. He stepped down as CEO two years ago, and does not own a majority of Amazon stock. He is executive chairman of the board, but there is no factual sense in which you can say that he owns (or even exerts direct control over) Goodreads or any other Amazon company.
But he owns massive amounts of Amazon stock, so he does "own Amazon" technically in that he owns a large part of it - it said "Jeff Bezos-owned", not "Jeff Bezos-solely-owned" - so I think the sentence is true both in letter and in spirit.
You believe the spirit of what the author meant was that because Jeff Bezos owns a lot of shares in Amazon, he controls the product design for Goodreads? Because otherwise that sentence is a total non sequitor and should have been removed. I'm also a shareholder of Amazon, am I also responsible? I disagree, I think the most likely explanation is that they didn't know he wasn't CEO anymore, and they believed that when he was CEO he micromanaged Goodreads, both of which are mistaken.
Jeff Bezos doesn't own Goodreads. Sorry to be pedantic, but this has come up a couple times recently, so it's becoming a pet peeve. He stepped down as CEO two years ago, and does not own a majority of Amazon stock. He is executive chairman of the board, but there is no factual sense in which you can say that he owns (or even exerts direct control over) Goodreads or any other Amazon company.