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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) [5] is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon.Before being appointed by Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020, [6] [7] Jassy had been the SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.
[20] [21] Amazon is also the global leader in research and development spending, with R&D expenditure of US$73 billion in 2022. [22] Amazon has been criticized on various grounds, including but not limited to customer data collection practices, a toxic work culture, censorship, tax avoidance, and anti-competitive practices.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says founder Jeff Bezos is the ‘most unusual business leader of our era’ ... Amazon’s stock is up 85% over the past five years and up 20% in the last six months with a ...
While head of Amazon’s crown jewel, Jassy showed support for social justice issues, calling for changes to policing in the U.S. following the killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020, and declaring his ...
12th leader of the company 2017-11-14 Canonical: Mark Shuttleworth: Founder and CEO [28] 2017 Stepped down as CEO in 2009 and resumed in 2017 2017-11-14 Capital One Financial: Richard Fairbank: Founder, chairman and CEO [29] 1988 Co-founded the firm with Nigel Morris: 2017-11-14 Caterpillar: Jim Umpleby: CEO [30] 2017 Succeeded Douglas R ...
Bezos's Amazon Prime Video recently paid $40 million to ... Business leaders of the opposite party also find their way to reconciling with the new administration, with only lightly bruised egos ...
Amazon began search for Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters to house up to 50,000 employees. [149] [150] 2018 January 18 Company Amazon narrows down the choices of its second headquarters location to 20 places. [151] 2018 January 22 Company Amazon opens a cashier-less grocery store to the public. [152] 2018 September 19 International