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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Amazon Industry: Technology / E-commerce

Succeeding a founder is corporate highwire work; succeeding Jeff Bezos was performed without a net. Andy Jassy, who built AWS from a memo into the world’ s most profitable cloud business, has spent five years proving Amazon’ s second act has an author. Costs fell, delivery sped up and the AI position hardened around Anthropic, custom Trainium silicon and a retail machine increasingly run by robotics. Kuiper’ s satellites began serving customers and advertising became a US $ 19.8bn-aquarter business. Jeff built the everything store. Andy is building the everything infrastructure, with less theatre.

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