Jeff Bezos Steps Down As Amazon CEO

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Jeff Bezos, the American business magnate, who is founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of one of the world’s largest technological organisations Amazon, will step down from the top position on Monday.

The chief of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy, will become the new CEO.

However, Bezos, 57, will retain a crucial role as the executive chair at the organisation. He will not be a part of the daily management and will spend more time on other projects including his Aerospace company Blue Origin.

Bezos, who is currently the richest person in the world, started Amazon as an online bookstore at a garage 27 years back, when he packaged orders himself and delivered them to post offices.

He took the organisation to new heights and expanded its business in the fields of e-commerce, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, digital streaming among many others.

Amazon, which is often regarded as the most valuable brand on earth, has a market value of over $1.7 trillion, according to a report by news agency AFP.

Jeff Bezos own net worth is close to $200 billion, even after a divorce settlement with ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, where he gave a part of his stake to her.

Bezos has many critics. Last month, a bombshell article from ProPublica claimed to have seen Bezos’ tax returns – and alleged Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011. It was a stunning claim about the world’s richest man.

Other negative stories about Amazon, its ruthlessness, its claims of monopolistic behaviour, haven’t helped Bezos’ reputation.

However, many people who work closely with him don’t recognise the characterisation that he is uncaring or selfish.

For them, he is a business visionary – a man with a singular focus who has created a legendary work philosophy and a company worth almost $1.8trn (£1.3tn) according to BBC News.

Always fascinated by space travel, later this month he aims to fly into space on the first crewed flight made by his company Blue Origin.

A petition to not allow him back to Earth has gathered nearly 150,000 signatures.

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'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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