According to Jassy’s current and former colleagues, during weekly operational and product reviews with the boss, Jassy’s questions often address weak areas in a proposal or projections that presenters didn’t completely thought through. How Jassy is with his colleagues and subordinates?Īndy Jassy worked with Bezos and other executives to form Amazon’s guiding principles, and in fact, followed them to the T – thereby paving way to Amazon’s writing and data-driven culture, Bloomberg reported. He goes hard by Amazon’s corporate religion – put customers first, move fast, and be frugal, the Bloomberg report added. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo(REUTERS)Īt the same time, Jassy has the competitive bone and apprehension of conventional wisdom similar to that of Bezos. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Inde, the new Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has a worth of roughly $500 million. Recruited at Amazon way back in 1997, Jassy is known among his colleagues and subordinates as someone who is unassuming and easy to connect, according to a Bloomberg report. His experience as the chief of AWS will come in be handy as he gears up to deal with bigger responsibilities.On Monday, Andy Jassy, who is serving as the chief of Amazon Web Services (AWS) will take over from Jeff Bezos as the new CEO of the one of the world’s biggest tech giants. 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 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. 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. It is one of the biggest cloud computing service providers in the world.
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. 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. 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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