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After leading Amazon for 27 uninterrupted years Jeff Bezos left his position as CEO of the company he founded in 1994. A few months ago the most important retail company in the world announced that the change of post would take place in the early hours of July 5 , the date arrived.
Although Bezos does not leave the company, his new role will be as a new project advisor, so you will not make the fundamental decisions for the company. From now on, Andy Jassy will be in charge of driving the future of the e-commerce giant.
Although Jassy is not part of the founders of the company, he has a clear idea of what the labor and administrative structure is like. The now CEO came to Amazon in 1997, when the company still did not become the sales monster that it is now. Back then Amazon only sold books online.
Although Andy Jassy came to the firm as part of the marketing department, he managed to gain the trust of Jeff Bezos and shortly afterwards he was appointed to be his personal technical assistant . Since then they have achieved a very close synergy of work with which they have passed for many years.
The new boss of the company has the challenge of maintaining the sales numbers they have achieved. In February the firm announced that had exceeded $ 100, 000 million dollars in quarterly sales for the first time. This is not a minor figure and denotes the impact Amazon has on the market.
Perhaps the challenge for Jassy is not easy, but it has already demonstrated a great capacity for the company to be at the technological forefront, since it was in charge of the Amazon Web Services area. This part of the company is the largest cloud services platform today.
The growth of Amazon Web Services has allowed businesses are closed with firms such as Adobe, Spotify, Netflix, Roku . Also in the client portfolio, there are media such as The Washington Post, WNYC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Democratic National Committee.
Probably, Jeff Bezos considered that it was important for someone with the capacity of Andy Jassy to replace him in the position, since he is clear that from now on, the new CEO will have to face various challenges such as facing the investigations of the United States government to the company for monopoly allegations .
In addition to this, the new leader will face pressure from congressmen who urges them to focus on being a company that must take better care of the corporate. Within the company, employees routinely voice complaints about working conditions and, on the front line, have met with unions to explore the possibility of organizing.
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