Andy Jassy: Last News

You’ll have to forgive anyone in Hollywood whose response to the Feb. 2 news that Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO was, “who?” An Amazon lifer, Jassy spent nearly two decades running the Seattle e-commerce giant’s highly profitable cloud-computing division, a role that hardly put him in a position to rub elbows with the creatives making films and TV shows for Amazon Studios.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has stunned staff at the e-commerce company by announcing he is stepping down as CEO.Bezos, the second richest man in the world, founded the company 27 years ago and announced his decision in a letter to employees on Tuesday (February 2, 2021).He revealed the switch will take place in the third quarter of 2021, when Amazon Web Services CEO, Andy Jassy, will take over.Bezos will become the executive chair of Amazon’s board.“I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives,” Bezos stated in the leaked letter. “Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have.

an experienced buffalo wing eater’, a reference to a chicken wing-eating club he started at business school and established at AWS. It was even incorporated into the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas where 60,000 attendees broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever chicken wing eating competition.Apparently Jassy’s personal record is more than 50 in one sitting.“He’s very down-to-earth” agreed a friend of mine who sat on a round-table discussion with the businessman at Davos.

Amazon’s CEO, but the company will still stay committed to making more video games.This is according to an email from incoming CEO Andy Jassy, who has expressed his support for Amazon Game Studios despite its troubled history. For context, last year the developer released the online shooter Crucible, which flopped so badly that the studio unreleased the game and subsequently cancelled it.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAmazon Studios head Jennifer Salke doesn’t expect Jeff Bezos to turn his attention to producing as he steps down as Amazon CEO — but she doesn’t rule it out either.Variety took the opportunity on Wednesday morning to ask Salke — calling in to chat about the Golden Globes 2021 nominations — about Bezos’ big news. Now that Bezos has a bit more free time, would the billionaire be up for, say, getting into the TV producing game?“I don’t think he’s going be developing shows for me,” Salke quipped, a day after Bezos blockbuster announcement that he would transition to executive chairman of Amazon’s board and hand the CEO title to Andy Jassy.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' decision to leave his CEO role later this year caught Wall Street by surprise on Feb. 2, but several analysts sharing their thoughts on the elevation of Andy Jassy to CEO expressed confidence in the promotion.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJeff Bezos, after 27 years building Amazon into a global retailing superpower — and personally amassing an ungodly amount of money — later this year will relinquish the CEO spot.In a surprise announcement, Amazon on Tuesday said Bezos will step down as chief exec in the third quarter of 2021 to become executive chairman.

Andy Jassy, chief of the company’s lucrative Amazon Web Services division and a career Amazonian.Bezos is stepping aside after 26 years at the top to spend more time on his other interests, including rolling back climate change and space travel (an interest he shares with fellow tech mogul Elon Musk). That leaves Jassy holding the reins of a trillion-dollar business.Reports suggest that Amazon couldn’t be in more capable hands.

APPOINTMENTSAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO. He has an exciting new gig as, well, Executive Chair of Amazon.

Amazon says Jeff Bezos will resign as chief executive of the company he founded more than 25 years ago.

Jeff Bezos, who built Amazon from a modest online bookseller to one of a handful of the most valuable companies in the world, said he would step down from his role and transition to executive chair of the company.

Jeff Bezos is stepping down.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon announced that founder Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of 2021, moving into a new role as executive chair.Andy Jassy, currently CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will become Amazon.com’s CEO at that time. The ecommerce giant made the announcement alongside blowout fourth-quarter 2020 earnings.Bezos didn’t directly address the executive transition plan in his prepared remarks.“Amazon is what it is because of invention,” Bezos said in a statement.

James McClain Jeff Bezos protégé Andy Jassy, Amazon’s longtime second-in-command and presumptive heir apparent, appears to be following in the footsteps of his internationally famous boss. Quick on the heels of Bezos paying $165 million for Beverly Hills’ iconic Jack Warner estate, the Seattle-based Amazon Web Services CEO and his wife Elana have dropped $6.7 million for a relatively modest L.A.