New Delhi:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday congratulated Jeff Bezos and his successor Andy Jassy on their new roles just after the Amazon founder announced his choice to stand aside later this year as chief executive of the firm.
Mr Bezos mentioned he will transition to the part of executive chair in the third quarter, handing more than the CEO part to Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services.
The Indian-American prime executive also sent his most effective wishes for two of the passion projects of the outgoing Amazon CEO – the Day 1 Fund and the Bezos Earth Fund.
Congrats @JeffBezos , most effective wishes for Day 1 and Earth fund. Congrats @ajassy on your new part!
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 2, 2021
Mr Bezos, in a letter to Amazon workers, mentioned he would “stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives” but would pivot towards philanthropic initiatives, such as his Day One Fund and Bezos Earth Fund, and other business enterprise ventures in space exploration and journalism.
Top executives and prominent figures at other big organizations about the planet have been sending their congratulations to Bezos and Jassy through Twitter.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, noting Mr Jassy’s accomplishments, mentioned, “a well-deserved recognition of what you have accomplished”.
Congratulations to @JeffBezos and @ajassy on your new roles. A properly-deserved recognition of what you have achieved.
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 2, 2021
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, also took to Twitter to say Amazon “could not be in better hands.”
Congrats @ajassy! Amazon could not be in superior hands. 👍
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) February 2, 2021
Mr Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and went on to develop it into a colossus that dominates on the web retail, with operations in streaming music and tv, groceries, cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and more.
Mr Jassy joined Amazon as a advertising and marketing manager in 1997 and in 2003 founded AWS, the cloud services division of the firm which has been one of the most lucrative but least-recognized units of the tech giant.