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Meet Andy Jassy, Amazon's next CEO
Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO later this year. Here’s what to know about him and his rise at the company over 24 years.
Jassy Will Assume the Role of CEO in Q3
Bezos announced he would transition to the executive-chairman role and focus on "new products and early initiatives."
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Current and former employees also told Insider that Jassy takes interest in the specifics that are not common to executives of his level, with high standards and keen attention to detail.
Parler, the social media app popular with supporters of President Donald Trump, is now offline after Amazon booted the platform from its web-hosting service. Amazon announced its intention to sever ties with Parler on Sunday, saying it "cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to …
Jassy was rumored to be in the running for Uber's CEO position
Jassy's work at AWS has drawn the respect of other industry leaders. At one point, Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer approached Jassy about becoming his successor, and was also in the running for CEO of Uber after Travis Kalanick stepped down in 2017.
Uber's voting board, which consists of eight people, is meeting on Friday and through the weekend to try to decide who to name the next CEO. Jeff Immelt and Meg Whitman are both in the running, though Whitman has publicly said she will not be Uber's CEO. There may also be a third person in the …
who Will replace Jassy at AWS?
Here are a few star execs who have made their mark on AWS, making them likely CEO candidates.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos named Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy as his successor when he steps down later this year, which leaves a vacant role atop the $40 billion market-leading cloud business responsible for more than 60% of Amazon's revenue. While Amazon has yet to announce a replacement for …
