Sundar Pichai also sent his best wishes for two of Jeff Bezos’ passionate projects. (ARCHIVE)
New Delhi:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday congratulated Jeff Bezos and his successor Andy Jassy for their new roles after the founder of Amazon announced his decision to step down this year as chief executive of the company.
Bezos said he will transition to the position of executive president in the third quarter, passing the role of CEO to Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon Web Services.
The top Indian-American executive also sent his best wishes for two of the passionate projects of the Amazon CEO who is leaving office – the Day 1 Fund and the Bezos Earth Fund.
Congratulations @JeffBezos , best wishes for Day 1 and the Terra Fund Congratulations @ajassy in his new role!
– Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 2, 2021
Bezos, in a letter to Amazon employees, said he would “remain involved in important Amazon initiatives”, but would turn to philanthropic initiatives, including his Day One Fund and Bezos Earth Fund, and other space exploration and journalism ventures.
Senior executives and prominent figures in other large companies around the world have sent their congratulations to Bezos and Jassy via Twitter.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, looking at Mr. Jassy’s achievements, said, “a deserved recognition for what you have accomplished”.
Congratulations to @JeffBezos and @ajassy in their new roles. A deserved recognition for what you have accomplished.
– Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 2, 2021
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, also accessed 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 transformed it into a colossus that dominates online retail, with operations in streaming music and television, groceries, cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and more.
Mr. Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997 and in 2003 he founded AWS, the company’s cloud services division that has been one of the tech giant’s most profitable, but least well-known units.