{"id":38924,"date":"2021-02-03T20:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=38924"},"modified":"2021-02-03T20:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:28:49","slug":"jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-after-27-years-at-the-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-after-27-years-at-the-helm\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos To Step Down As Amazon CEO After 27 Years At The Helm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the greatest runs as CEO in corporate history has come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced he&#8217;ll be stepping down as CEO in the second half of 2021. He will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing business. Bezos will become Amazon&#8217;s Executive Chairman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=640%2C412\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=1024%2C659&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=768%2C494&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=500%2C322&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=600%2C386&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=174%2C111&amp;ssl=1 174w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?resize=95%2C62&amp;ssl=1 95w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rawafrica_jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg?w=1302&amp;ssl=1 1302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m excited to announce that this Q3 I\u2019ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,&#8221; Bezos wrote in a letter to his employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had more energy, and this isn&#8217;t about retiring. I&#8217;m super passionate about the impact I think these organisations can have,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ends an extraordinary 27 years at the helm for Bezos, who&#8217;d founded Amazon all the way back in 1994, when the internet&#8217;s potential hadn&#8217;t been fully seen by most entrepreneurs. He&#8217;s started off selling books, but then had gone on to build Amazon &#8212; and in many ways, the global e-commerce industry &#8212; as it exists today. He&#8217;d also done pretty well for himself, ending up <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-just-become-second-richest-man-world\/\">becoming <\/a>the richest man in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he&#8217;s now stepping aside to focus on other bets, much like Google&#8217;s Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who&#8217;d left the day-to-day running of Google to <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/sundar-pichai-background\/\">Sundar Pichai<\/a>. Bezos&#8217;s replacement Andy Jassy is an old-timer at Amazon. He had graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997, and had been involved in the founding of Amazon Web Services in 2003. He&#8217;d gone on to become the CEO of Amazon Web Services in 2016. 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