Jeff Bezos, whose competitive zeal made Amazon a dominant force in the world of online retail, will step down as CEO this summer and turn over the reins to Andy Jassy, who runs the cloud computing business. One of the world's most powerful business figures and also one of its wealthiest, Bezos will …
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Meet Amazon's New CEO
After more than a quarter-century, Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of the world's largest online marketplace. Amazon says the head of its Web Services unit Andy Jassy will succeed him. So who is the new CEO? Learn more about him in this Storyboard, along with the impact this change will have on the company and what we know about Bezos' next act as Executive Chairman.
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Jeff Bezos will be stepping down as Amazon’s CEO, a shocking change in its own right, but the move has also put the spotlight on his successor, a little-known but powerful executive named Andy Jassy who runs the company’s cloud computing unit. Key Facts Jassy is currently CEO of Amazon Web Services, …
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore. But now he has bigger ambitions to take to the stars with his rocket company Blue Origin. Jeff …
Andy Jassy, the leader of Amazon’s cloud computing business, is now the clear heir apparent to Jeff Bezos after the announced retirement of the retail operations chief. Now: Jeff Bezos announces AWS chief Andy Jassy as new Amazon CEO SEATTLE — There are few chief executives more identified with the …
Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage to worldwide behemoth. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy …
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy told FRONTLINE, “We don’t have a large number of police departments that are using our facial recognition technology.” He defended the company’s controversial sale of the tech to law enforcement saying, “We’ve never received any complaints of misuse. Let’s see if somehow they abuse the technology.” Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW #Amazon #FrontlinePBS #FacialRecognition This excerpt is from an interview conducted for FRONTLINE’s documentary “Amazon Empire,” which examines how founder and CEO Jeff Bezos turned Amazon into a business empire that is unprecedented in the history of American capitalism. For the full story, watch "Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos" starting Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 9/8c on PBS and online: https://to.pbs.org/2SH9uSj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline FRONTLINE is streaming more than 200 documentaries online, for free, here: https://to.pbs.org/37lhSw0 Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the Park Foundation, The John and Helen Glessner Family Trust, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is handing over the reins of the company to his longtime second-in-command: Andy Jassy. Jassy, 53, who currently serves as CEO of AWS, will take over in the third quarter of 2021, Bezos announced in a letter to employees Tuesday afternoon. "Andy is well known inside the company …
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy sits down with Recode Editor-at-Large Kara Swisher at the 2019 Code Conference. Subscribe to Recode on YouTube: https://goo.gl/FRleYo Recode by Vox is the preeminent tech, media and business brand uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Check out https://www.vox.com/recode Check out our full video catalog: https://goo.gl/JeqE6e Follow Recode on Twitter: https://goo.gl/n4jVhu Follow Recode on Instagram: https://goo.gl/k8KXjH Subscribe to our podcasts: https://vox.com/recode-podcasts Read more: https://vox.com/recode
AWS Channel Chief: CEO Andy Jassy ‘So Hungry To Do More’ ‘His craft is managing this company and making sure that we do all the right things for the …
Amazon today announced that the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Andy Jassy, has finally been promoted to chief executive of that Amazon business unit. AWS is now the market leader of the public cloud business, and Jassy has been the face of the company. Now he’s is getting the very well-deserved …
Elana Jassy, the wife of the newly announced Amazon CEO-to-be Andy Jassy, donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2016 bid for the presidency. Elana Jassy gave $250 to Sanders' campaign in February 2016, during his primary contest against Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination, according …
