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 as the company’s chief executive later this year.
Bezos said he will step down as chief executive in the third quarter, handing over the role of CEO to Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon Web Services.
The Indian-American executive also sent best wishes for two of the outgoing Amazon CEO’s passion projects – Day 1 Fund and Bezos Earth Fund.
congratulations @JeffBezos , good wishes for Day 1 and the Earth fund. congratulations @ajassy on your new role!
– Sundar Pichai (undsundarpichai) February 2, 2021
Bezos, in a letter to Amazon employees, said he “will remain engaged in important Amazon initiatives,” but will pivot toward philanthropic initiatives, including his One Day Fund and Bezos Earth Fund, as well as other space exploration business projects. and journalism.
Top executives and prominent personalities from other major companies around the world sent congratulations to Bezos and Jassy via Twitter.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, citing Mr. Jassy’s accomplishments, said: “A well-deserved recognition of what you have accomplished.”
Congratulations to him @JeffBezos and @ajassy on your new roles. A well-deserved recognition of what you have accomplished.
– Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 2, 2021
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, also took to Twitter to say that Amazon “could not be in better hands”
congratulations @ajassy! Amazon could not be in better hands. ????
– Marc Benioff (@Benioff) February 2, 2021
Mr. Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and went on to turn it into a colossus that dominates online retail, with music and television streaming operations, food, cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and more.
Mr. Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997 and in 2003 founded AWS, the company’s cloud services division, which was one of the technology giant’s most profitable but least known units.