The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, leaves his position as CEO of the company that he started in his garage almost 30 years.
The tycoon The American, who has since become the richest man on the planet, is replaced by Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon Web Services, the company’s burgeoning cloud computing business.
Bezos ceases to be CEO, but does not leave the company entirely and will continue to be part of its board of directors .
But what about the future CEO of Amazon?
Unlike his predecessor, Andy Jassy keeps a very low profile .
Born in New York State, was listed by Amazon at 1997, right after graduating from Harvard Business School (HBS).
“I did my final exam at HBS on the first Friday in May 1997, and I started at Amazon the following Monday, ”Jassy said in an HBS podcast in September last year.
Head of one of the engines of the company
His first position would be as a marketing manager and he worked his way up until he helped found Amazon Web Services (AWS) early years 2000, which is now regarded as one of the company’s great profit engines.
The division provides storage and cloud computing, creating the infrastructure used by governments and millions of companies, including McDonald’s and Netflix.
Jassy, who now has 52 years, he was promoted from senior vice president to executive director of AWS at 2016.
“Andy is well known within the company and has been with Amazon almost as long as I have,” Bezos wrote in an email addressed to his employees.
“He will be an outstanding leader and he has all my confidence.”
Amazon’s new CEO has mostly stayed away from politics, but last year he expressed on Twitter his support for the US Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children.
He also welcomed the order to make discrimination against LGBTQ people illegal in their workplace. low.
“It was not an accident”
Jassy is also a well-known lover sports , especially ice hockey. So much so that he is a co-owner of the Seattle Kraken, a new team that will compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) starting this year.
Sophie Lund-Yates, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, says that “it was no accident” that Amazon chose the cloud business director to lead the company, as his rise to the top underscores how important it is to be This division has returned.
“(AWS) continued to shine in the (most recent) quarter and now accounts for a more significant portion of sales. The potential is enormous, ”he explained.
Amazon’s total sales increased by 44% in the last three months of the year to US $ 167. 675 million, driven in part by renewed lockdown measures in some parts of the world, as well as a later date for “Prime Day,” when the company sells products at deep discounts.
Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, registered an increase of 28% in sales reaching US $ 12. 976 millions.
Bezos is still in a position of “immense power”
James Clayton, a technology reporter for the BBC, notes that although the replacement is a surprise, it is necessary to re agree that Jeff Bezos has a fortune of about US $ 200. 000 millions.
The Tycoon also owns the aerospace transportation company Blue Origin and the Washington Post.
For her part, Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi stated on Twitter that Jassy’s rise “says a lot.”
“It shows without a doubt that AWS is the n core of the company . The level of knowledge that Jassy has about the technology, the business and the ecosystem in general has been seen brilliantly, “he wrote on the social network.
But later he added that he does not believe that Bezos “Has stopped having an impact on the future of the company.”
Critics of the company reacted to the announcement of Similarly.
“Don’t be fooled by Amazon. Jeff Bezos is still in a position of immense power as CEO, ”stated Public Citizen, a US-based consumer rights activist group.
“This predatory and abusive monopoly still needs a complete overhaul.”
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