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Bezos will hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5 – Source CNET Tech

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Jeff Bezos at an event in India in 2020. He first announced his upcoming departure from the CEO role in February 2021.


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Jeff Bezos gave an exact date for his previously announced departure as the CEO of Amazon: July 5. That’s the day Andy Jassy, the company’s current CEO of Amazon Web Services, will take over the job.

Calling the date “sentimental,” Bezos noted during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday that July 5, 1994 is the date that Amazon.com Inc. was incorporated in the state of Washington (it’s now…

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