Andy Jassy steps out of the shadows – so who exactly is Amazon’s new CEO?
by Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent and Sarah Butler from Technology | The Guardian on (#5KTSD)
The elevation of the man behind the Cloud while Jeff Bezos relinquishes day-to-day control, comes at a critical time for Amazon
Andy Jassy made a powerful - and painful - first impression on the billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos soon after he joined the then start-up bookseller in 1997.
During a rambunctious game of broomball" - a cross between lacrosse and football that another Amazon executive invented and is still overly competitively played at the company - Jassy, then a fresh-faced recruit from Harvard Business School, accidentally hit Bezos over the head with a kayak paddle.
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