Lauren Sánchez says Jeff Bezos has a no-phone rule in the morning

• Lauren Sánchez said her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, set a rule not to use their phones in the morning.

• They enjoy a "magic moment" of talking to each other, she said.

• Other CEOs spend their morning differently — from waking up at dawn to eating donuts.

Lauren Sánchez said Jeff Bezos set a rule for them to start their mornings right.

"My favorite part of the day is the morning," Sanchez, 54, told People in an interview published Thursday.

She said she makes a coffee for herself and the Amazon founder, whom she got engaged to in May last year. The couple then enjoys a "magic moment" in the morning when it's just them talking, she said.

"The kids haven't woken up yet. And we don't get on our phones. That's one of the rules," Sánchez said.

The couple have a blended family. Sánchez has three kids, one with ex-boyfriend Tony Gonzalez, and two with her ex-husband, Patrick Whitesell. Bezos has four children with ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott. Which children live with them isn't confirmed.

Sánchez, a former news anchor, said she'd probably use her phone if it were up to her. Bezos "definitely made that rule," she said, continuing: "It wasn't me. But the mornings are just for us as long as we can."

During a 2018 speech at the Economic Club of Washington, Bezos said he spent his mornings reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and having breakfast with his children. Calling it his "puttering time," he added that the routine gave him energy and improved his decision-making.

In a December episode of Lex Fridman's podcast, Bezos defined "putter" as slowly moving around. "I'm not as productive as you might think I am," Bezos, the world's second-richest man, said with a laugh.

"I move pretty slowly in the first couple of hours. I get up early, just naturally. And then, you know, I exercise most days," he said.

Morning routines vary among CEOs

While Bezos stays away from his phone, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has said he does the opposite.

"The first thing I do is look at my phone. I look at Facebook to see what's going on in the world," Zuckerberg said in a live Facebook Q&A in 2016.

"It's a pretty sad situation, to be honest," he said about the habit.

Zuckerberg has said his morning routine also often includes Brazilian jiujitsu and MMA training and wearing the same outfit to reduce brainpower.

Apple CEO Tim Cook told Dua Lipa on her podcast in November that he wakes up before the sun rises — between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. — and then spends the first hour of his day responding to emails.

Similarly, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has said he wakes up at 4.45 a.m.

"I get up really early, because that's the only time that's 'Evan Time' for me, when people aren't really awake yet. I get a couple hours between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. to do whatever I want to do," he said in a 2018 interview published in Entrepreneurship Handbook.

But not all CEOs rise at the crack of dawn. Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X and Tesla, told The Wall Street Journal in February last year that he works late into the night and typically wakes up at 9 a.m.

And though it wasn't confirmed whether he was serious or just joking, Musk once replied to a doctor's post on X saying: "I eat a donut every morning. Still alive."

Bezos didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside business hours.

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