Last Updated on 22/11/2021 by Riya
In the world of technology, Jeff Bezos is a global face We’re all familiar with him as Amazon’s CEO. However, Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, has resigned from his post today. Andy Jassi has taken his position. For the past several years, Andy Jassi was continued serving as the Head of Amazon Web Services. Jassi is supposed to be Bezos’ most trusted adviser. Only Jassi Andy, after Jeff Bezos, can be trusted given such a big responsibility. It is often believed that Amazon has been considering making Jassi Andy their CEO for several years.
According to reports, Jeff Bezos will be involved in Amazon’s daily management. Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man since you all aware. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon as an online bookstore in his garage 27 years ago. Jeff Bezos had handled everything individually, even preparing packages and transporting books to the post office. Bezos quickly grew his company to unprecedented peaks and diversified into new categories and sectors. Bezos confirmed his withdrawal as CEO of Amazon in a letter to Amazon workers in February 2021.
He stated that “he currently wishes to concentrate on his new projects, for sensitive reasons he picked the 5th of July as the day for his resignation. Jeff Bezos explained that it is the exact day on which Amazon was founded 27 years earlier in 1994”. Bezos furthermore, stated that “he will continue to work on a few of his major initiatives, involving his aerospace business Blue Origin, his philanthropic initiative, and supervise his newspaper The Washington Post in coming years”.
Furthermore, On July 20, Bezos would also fly into space lasting 11 minutes and landing in the West Texas Desert using a parachute. Jeff Bezos gain more limelight when Forbes consider him as the world’s richest man with a net worth of $200 billion till June 2021. Although with this big responsibility Jassi’s challenges are also increased amid the strict regulation on tech giants in the US. Now it is compelling to witness how he handle all these issues in the coming days.
