In a letter to employees,His replacement will be Andy Jassy, the current CEO of Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud platform.what over a dozen current and former employees told Insider in interviews published in January.Jassy joined Amazon in 1997, the same year the company went public. The 53-year-old built AWS from the ground up within the past two decades and became CEO of the cloud platform in 2016.
as"one of the most powerful leaders not just within the cloud and tech sector but in the world of business."Jassy served as a so-called"shadow" advisor to Bezos at one point, joining the chief executive in high-level meetings.Jassy is one of the highest-paid executives at Amazon He has raked in a total of more than $20 million within the past three years. In 2016 alone, Jassy earned over $36 million while Bezos made about $1.7 million in total, according toEx-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer approached Jassy at one point about replacing him as chief executive of the company, a person familiar with the discussion told
Jeff Bezos did not 'quit'. He is becoming the Executive Chair of the Amazon Board. He will be even more powerful while avoiding the media scrutiny. More power. Less accountability.