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‘Mother of all midlife crises’? What Bezos’ departure means for Amazon – Sydney Morning Herald
Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos is handing over the reins to long-term team member Andy Jassy as his empire focuses on the cloud and looks to space.
Former AWS Australia boss Paul Migliorini said Mr Bezos stepping down was not super surprising after the billionaire had appointed Jeff Wilke as head of Amazons consumer business a few years ago and placed Mr Jassy in the other chief executive role.
I think Jeff signalled a number of years ago through that decision he was thinking about what life would look like beyond his role as the operating CEO of the business, he said.
Mr Bezos will continue at Amazon in the role of executive chair and Mr Migliorini…
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