Jeff Bezos has sold his headquarters at Amazon

The change had already been decided since February, it is now done: Andy Jassy now held the position of CEO of Amazon. Having joined the company in 1997, three years after the creation of it, he will quickly become chief of staff of Jeff Bezos before taking the lead in the AWS (Amazon Web Services) division. We also know him as a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken, a team of American ice hockey.

The man finds himself at the head of a firm listed at nearly $ 2,000 billion on the Wall Street Stock Exchange, and whose ambitions are constantly pretending to be the future of society. Drones, services, culture or even consumer electronics: its teams are now everywhere, so that even Apple is competed. Especially withVideo games at the request of Prime Luna, whose offer is relatively similar to Arcade although always inaccessible in France.

Back on a historic direction

During its beginnings in 1994, Amazon does not yet bear this name but is called Cadabra, Inc. Jeff Bezos then launched the daring bet to revolutionize the book market by launching an online sales site to sell the works. The success is such that the introduction to the Nasdaq will follow in May 1997, with a starting prize of eighteen dollars against more than 3,700 at a time when we write these lines.

Since then, Amazon has largely diversified and its success is such that Jeff Bezos has even been named “personality of the year”By the famousTime Magazine. Despite everything, the criticisms of his model remain. Already on the side of booksellers who have lost a good part of their turnover, but also with regard to the working conditions of employees. We no longer count the repeated scandals, with employees forced to sleep in tents, without a rest day and without break to go to the toilet.

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And after?

For his part, the founder of Amazon will go to space on July 20 - if the conditions allow it aboard his reusable Blue Origin rocket. Remaining chairman of the board of directors, Bezos is still considered one of the most important personal fortunes on the planet with nearly two hundred billion dollars to his credit. A large part of this capital actually coming from the 16% of the shares it has within Amazon, alongside Vanguard and Blackrock.