[cm2012]

Someone once described Amazon as essentially a charity since they didn't take profits for shareholders in the first 20 years of their existence even though they could have. Even now they still reinvest most profits into capex.

[quadrangle]

"non-profit" would be at least appropriate for your point, "charity" definitely not. Those two terms are not actually synonyms.

But even with non-charity non-profit, Bezos wouldn't be so wealthy. Still, that's not your point. Your point is that it operates in a way to advance its business activities rather than to distribute profits, and that's largely true.

[decebalus1]

Someone needs to read up on both the definition of charity and the definition of 'essentially'