Jeff Bezos will leave his post as CEO of Amazon (the equivalent of our CEO) in the second half of 2021: the company announced it on Tuesday, indicating Andy Jassy as its successor. Jassy is currently the CEO of Amazon Web Services, Amazon's company dedicated to providing cloud computing systems.
Bezos is 57 years old and is the founder of Amazon, with which he became one of the richest men in the world and the most famous and symbolic character of the digital revolutions of these decades, transforming the initial success of the e-commerce site into a development. extended digital services and innovative technology projects that have placed Amazon in the small group – Apple, Facebook, Google – of the huge digital companies that today govern the lives and economies of billions of people.
“Right now Amazon is in its most inventive phase ever, and that makes it great for this transition,” says a statement from Bezos released alongside the news. Bezos said that by no longer serving as Amazon's CEO, he will have more time to devote to his other companies, such as the Washington Post newspaper and his space company Blue Origin.
