Tuesday, February 2nd 2021
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO, AWS Head Andy Jassy to Take Over
In a move comparable to that of Bill Gates and Brin & Page disconnecting themselves from micro-managing the companies they co-founded; Jeff Bezos announced stepping down as CEO of Amazon. He has handed over reins of the company to Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services (AWS). He "leaves" Amazon as a corporate colossus, valued at $1.6 trillion. Bezos will remain as the Executive Chair of Amazon. He stated that he will remain "engaged in important Amazon initiatives." One of these is the Bezos Earth Fund, the aerospace company Blue Origin, and give more attention to "The Washington Post," which Amazon owns. In this regard, Bezos's retirement from the CEO's chair looks like a cross between the lives of Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
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The Washington Post
20 Comments on Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO, AWS Head Andy Jassy to Take Over
CEO's aren't important. They think they are. A company is known for its actions and products. If its known for its CEOs something went very wrong. And it actually is, Bezos = Amazon and that filthy bald head is just like Zuckerbergs eternal drool-face, both horrible to look at. You can just see they're worried about one thing only, themselves. Their media-look is so strong they can't let it go anymore.
Of course it also depends on age, for instance I don't recall the founder(s) of Motorola, AMD, Micron, Nintendo et al. There's a recency bias in here & with age you tend to not follow "all of tech" as you used to back in the day. Which is not to say that you're old but yeah even I haven't followed tech as religiously post 2010 as I used to :p
Internet and the world was doing just fine without Google.
This is also why I say I don't think the world would look much different with or without Google. Or Facebook even - social media existed before it and will exist without it. Or Apple - the smartphone was a broadly carried idea that was going to be developed further with or without Jobs. Is that 'hindsight'... nah, I literally said as much when I had my first Nokia in hand. Look at all those patent trolls and buyouts. These people aren't all that brilliant, they're just very close to what the market needs at a specific point in time, and they have the means to move in that direction. Good businessmen. Not the inventors many often make them out to be. They just know ahead of others what the next iteration of an idea should look like.
Even with regards to the Operating System and Gates and Jobs in the early days... almost every decision was motivated by the market. Were they strong minds, sure! But there were many like them and still are but they didn't manage to catapult to the highest office.
Don't like the guy.
He's a turd IMHO.
Hopefully I'll never hear or see the t#£t again now yes.
I have my doubts.... but I guess miracles can & do happen.... sometimes :roll:
Why do people expect the wealthy to give away what they earned?
For the latter, after living off the backs of others for sooo long, they should consider using some of their moolah to do something good for the rest of the world, you know like giving something back...
That's why :D