Also in 2009, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos purchased a 22 percent stake in glassybaby. A spokeswoman for Bezos suggested that he was passionate about the product, and thought the company, which grossed over $2 million in 2008, could eventually reach the $100 million mark in sales. In 2011, glassybaby hired Greg Huey from the Alliance of Angels as President and COO. In 2012, glassybaby closed their retail outlet in New York City. The store had been the subject of a New York Times case study, which detailed the difficulties experienced by the store. In 2013, glassybaby opened a retail outlet in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood. The company was also reportedly in negotiations to lease space for a glassblowing studio in the Presidio. In 2015, the company made a major push into the Bay Area, opening their first California hot shop in Berkeley, a 13,000 square-foot workshop and retail space. glassybaby also opened retail stores in Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center, the San Francisco Ferry Building, and on Union Street near Fillmore in the Marina district. Owner Lee Rhodes remembers meeting patients in chemo waiting rooms who could not afford day to day basic needs during treatment. She wanted to help. From the beginning, glassybaby has donated money from sales, not profits, to charities dedicated to meeting those needs for patients. By October, 2017, glassybaby had donated more than $8,000,000 to 400 different charities. Some of the charities where glassybaby donates money are the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, University of Washington Medical Center, Gilda's Club New York City, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, The Humane Society of the United States, and Conservation International. The original glassybaby is a glass votive, roughly 2.5" in diameter and 3.75" tall, although significant variation occurs due to the fact that each is handmade. It takes 12–14 minutes for each glassybaby to be made by a team of glass artists. glassybaby are created by a team of 70 plus artists seven days a week at the company's Madrona studio in more than 400 colors. Each glassybaby has a unique name like frog hunting, hope, joy, wet dog, wings and sorry.  glassybaby also manufactures a slightly larger and thinner glass vessel, known as a "drinker", sold in the "accessories" section of their website. Ten percent of each drinker sale is donated to the Seattle Division of V.A. Puget Sound to support veterans battling cancer.