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Jeff Bezos Steps Down As Amazon CEO, Who Will Take Over? Feb 03, 2021, 11:04 IST Jeff Bezos will step down from the position of Amazon’s CEO. Bezos announced that he will step down from the CEO’s position and instead take on the role of Executive Chairman. Bezos announced that he wishes to focus on other projects as well and the position of Executive Chairman will help him in doing that. Replacing Bezos will be another one of Amazon biggie, Andy Jassy. Bezos sent an email to all the employees in which he wrote, "As Executive Chairman, I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiat...

: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 10:48 AM IST Who is Andy Jassy? All you need to know about the man replacing Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO Photo: Wikipedia Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Tuesday that he would be stepping down from his post. While he will remain associated with the company, becoming Executive Chair of the Amazon Board, all eyes are now on his successor - Andy Jassy. "Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence," Bezos wrote in an email to employees.

Jeff Bezos gives up CEO post in Amazon and passes the torch to Andy Jassy Photo by: JD Lasica/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:28 AM UTC Related Stories The announcement names the new Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that as he leaves the CEO post, he will be transitioning as Amazon’s executive chair in the third quarter of 2021. He will be replaced by Amazon Web Services’ chief Andy Jassy. The billionaire announced the change of his title on Feb. 2, and he did this by sending an email to his employees. The note...

“Keep Inventing” Bezos tells Amazonians Jeff Bezos is to become Executive Chairman of Amazon handing over his CEO’s baton to Andy Jassy who runs AWS. This is Bezos’s letter to employees: Fellow Amazonians: I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence...

“Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,” writes Bezos. Amazon began as an idea some 27 years ago. Today, it employs 1.3 million dedicated people, serves hundreds of millions of customers and businesses, and are widely recognized as one of the most successful companies in the world. “As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues. Two high-impact examples: our $15 minimum wage and the Climate Pledge. In both cases, we staked o...