Who Is Andy Jassy, The Next CEO Of Amazon

It’s time to say goodbye to Jeff Bezos, the founder and current CEO of the American multinational tech giant Amazon, Inc., and welcome Andy Jassy as the next CEO.

That came when the company announced Tuesday that Bezos would transition from CEO to the executive chair and leave the reins to Andy Jassy, a 24-year Amazon veteran, later this year. Though not as a public figure as Bezos, Jassy, having grown Amazon’s cloud segment Amazon Web Services is also an accomplished executive. That segment has now turned into a $45 billion business; The company’s biggest moneymaker.

“It’s been a long time since Amazon has had a new CEO,” said Tigger earlier today. “Wait... Isn’t it that Bezos has been the CEO from when he founded Amazon in July of 1994?”

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