News Summary

• The Met Gala raised $42 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
• The night was sponsored by one of the richest (and controversial) men in the world, Jeff Bezos, billionaire founder of e-commerce giant Amazon, and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
• Amazon started this trend when the company sponsored the fundraiser in 2012, followed by other tech firms over the years such as Apple, Instagram, and TikTok.
• While seeing “tech bros” pose on the red carpet may be new to some, their companies have long been been part of the industry's landscape.