‘Absolutely a Sprint’: How Andy Jassy Raced to the Top of Amazon
The incoming CEO inherits a company on a post-pandemic roll but roiled by labor unrest and under mounting regulatory scrutiny.
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Andy Jassy usually starts his keynote at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing trade show with what amounts to a tedious infomercial for corporate software.
But last December, at an event held virtually rather than in a Las Vegas ballroom, the Amazon Web Services boss did something different: He talked about society. After acknowledging the tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic, Jassy called out the killings of three Black Americans that had sparked unprecedented protests across the country.