Sundar Pichai also sent his best wishes for two of Jeff Bezos ’passion projects. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday congratulated Jeff Bezos and his successor Andy Jassy on their new roles after Amazon founder announced his decision to step down later this year as CEO of the company.
Bezos said he will move on to the role of executive chairman in the third quarter, handing over the role of CEO to Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon Web Services.
The Indian-American top executive also sent out his best wishes for two of Amazon’s outgoing CEO passion projects: the Day 1 Fund and the Bezos Earth Fund.
Congratulations @JeffBezos , best wishes for the first day and the bottom of the Earth. Congratulations @ajassy for your new role!
– Sundar Pichai (undsundarpichai) February 2, 2021
Bezos, in a letter to Amazon employees, said he would “remain committed to major Amazon initiatives,” but would pivot toward philanthropic initiatives, including his first day and his Bezos Earth Fund, and other exploring companies. space and journalism.
Top executives and prominent figures from other major companies around the world have sent their congratulations to Bezos and Jassy via Twitter.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, noted Mr. Jassy’s accomplishments, saying, “a well-deserved recognition of what you’ve accomplished.”
Congratulations a @JeffBezos i @ajassy about your new roles. A well-deserved recognition of what you have achieved.
– Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 2, 2021
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, also took to Twitter to say that Amazon “couldn’t be in better hands.”
Congratulations @ajassy! Amazon couldn’t be in better hands. ????
– Marc Benioff (@Benioff) February 2, 2021
Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and turned it into a colossus that dominates online retail, with music and television streaming operations, groceries, cloud computing, robotics, intelligence artificial and more.
Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997 and in 2003 founded AWS, the company’s cloud services division, which has been one of the tech giant’s most profitable but least known units.