This Is The Profile Of Amazon's New CEO Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos' Replacement

Andy Jassy (Bloomberg)

JAKARTA - Jeff Bezos decided to leave the CEO position in 2021 from the company he started for 27 years, namely Amazon. After resigning, Bezos will become the executive chairman of the board at the company.

Jeff Bezos expressed the plan to resign from the CEO of Amazon via email he sent to all Amazon employees. The plan is that the CEO position will be given to Andy Jassy in the 3rd quarter of this year. Now Jassy is in the position of CEO of Amazon Web Services.

"I am pleased to announce that in the third quarter of this year I will move to become the Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will fill the position of CEO," Bezos said in a statement to Amazon employees.

“Andy has been well-known to the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an extraordinary leader and he also has high self-confidence like me, "added Bezos as quoted by Fox Business.

In 1994, Bezos founded Amazon which is an online bookstore. At that time he asked the question, "What is the internet?" Bezos answered by growing Amazon into a giant company that could sell "everything" online.

Despite announcing his resignation, Bezos will remain involved in various Amazon projects. He will also be able to spend his time managing his rocket company, Blue Origin. Likewise with the Bezos Earth Fund, Amazon Day 1 Fund and The Washington Post media.

Andy Jassy Profile

In 1997, Andy Jassy joined Amazon as an employee. At that time Jassy headed up the Amazon Web Services division. In 2021, Jassy will fill the position of CEO of Amazon. The promotion immediately received congratulations from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Jassy is a Harvard Business School graduate. After graduating, he immediately joined Amazon.

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- Amazon News (@amazonnews) February 2, 2021

"I took my last exam at HBS (Harvard Business School), the first Friday of May 1997, and I'm starting Amazon next Monday," Jassy said on the Harvard Business School podcast in September. "No, I don't know what my job will be, or what my position will be."

After that Jassy founded Amazon Web Services, a cloud hosting product that creates the infrastructure used by millions of companies, governments, and schools to operate websites and applications. Today, AWS controls nearly half of the world's public cloud infrastructure market.

Jassy is also known for his detailed technical understanding. He often talks about social issues, such as the case of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was murdered in her home by white police. Not only that, he also supports LGBTQ + rights as reported by The Guardian, Wednesday, February 3.