His experience as the chief of AWS will come in be handy as he gears up to deal with bigger responsibilities. Just a month later, he was promoted from senior vice president to CEO of AWS.įive years after his last promotion, Jassy now finds himself at the helm of Amazon, the world’s biggest e-commerce firm operating in multiple countries. Jassy, 53, who currently serves as CEO of AWS, will take over in the third quarter of. Jassy has been an instrumental figure in the success of the AWS division of Amazon and was named 'Person of the Year' by Financial Times in March 2016. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is handing over the reins of the company to his longtime second-in-command: Andy Jassy. The service competes with Microsoft Corp’s Azure and Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud. It may be noted that AWS provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments.
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He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence. It is one of the biggest cloud computing service providers in the world. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have, Bezos wrote. He was given the task of heading a team of 57 people for developing Amazon Web Services (AWS), which came into existence in 2006. In 2003, he and Jeff Bezos came up with the idea to create a cloud computing platform. Constantly inventing and improving products for customers has a compounding effect on the customer experience, and in turn. Iterative innovation creates magic for customers, he says. Jassy joined Amazon not knowing what his role was going to be, but he cemented his position within the company in just a few years. In his first shareholder letter, Andy Jassy also comes up with a new catchphrase that he believes encapsulates Amazon’s success: iterative innovation. It was super important to the Amazon people that we come that Monday,” Jassy said in a Harvard Business School podcast. No, I didn’t know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be. “I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. Watch | Andy Jassy: Meet The New CEO of AmazonĪfter shutting down the company, Jassy signed up for an MBA program at Harvard University and joined Amazon instantly after completing his course. He then started a company with a colleague from the company but closed it later. That's very important because they're a lot of things that are deeply embedded in the culture of Amazon,” McIlwain added.īefore joining Amazon, Jassy worked for five years after graduation as a project manager for a collectables company, MBI. "He watched how Jeff approached problems. He said Jassy tries to “understand the end customer” and creates building blocks for future expansion. Matt McIlwain, a managing director with Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, who has closely monitored Amazon's rise over the years told Bloomberg News that Andy Jassy “brings the principles that have always been a part of what's made Amazon successful”. Jassy has led some interesting projects at Amazon over the years. Bezos’s successor Andy Jassy joined Amazon as a project manager in 1997, just three years after the company was incorporated.
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