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4 Feb, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, will step down in late 2021.
According to an announcement on Tuesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down later this year, handing over control to the cloud company CEO Andy Yassy. Bezos will become Amazon's executive chairman.
Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in 1994 and has since transformed the one-time online bookstore into a mega-retailer with global reach across many different categories, from gadgets to grocery stores and streaming.
Bezos' leadership, Amazon's market cap surpassed $ 1 trillion last January and is now worth over $ 1.6 trillion. The company kept its succession plans under wraps, although observers speculated that either Yassy or Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's global consumer business, would ...
eventually succeed Bezos. Amazon announced in August that Wilke would retire in 2021. Yassy, 53, will take over as CEO in the third quarter.
Yassy joined Amazon in 1997 and has led the Amazon Web Services cloud team since its founding.
AWS continues to generate the majority of Amazon's revenue. The news comes alongside its earnings report, in which Amazon posted its $ 100 billion in the first quarter. AWS, operated by Jassy, reported 28% revenue growth in the fourth quarter.
As of October 2020, about 52% of Amazon's operating income came from AWS. Amazon shares are up about 10% in extended trading on Tuesday, up about 4% in 2021, and nearly 79% in the past 12 months.

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1. The Situation:
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The Time Magazine 10th November 1958.

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