Sundar Pichai also sent his best wishes for two of Jeff Bezos’ passion projects. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai congratulated Jeff Bezos and his successor Andy Jassy on Wednesday on their new roles after Amazon founder announced his decision to step down as the company’s CEO later this year.
Mr Bezos said he would move into the role of CEO in the third quarter and hand over the CEO to Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services.
The Indian-American top manager also sent his best wishes for two of Amazon’s retiring CEOs’ passion projects – the Day 1 Fund and the Bezos Earth Fund.
happiness @JeffBezos , best wishes for Day 1 and the Earth Fund. happiness @ajassy on your new role!
– Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) 2 February 2021
Mr. Bezos said in a letter to Amazon employees that it would “keep busy with key Amazon initiatives”, but that it would turn to philanthropic initiatives, including its Day One Fund and Bezos Earth Fund, and other businesses exploring space and journalism.
Top executives and prominent figures at other major companies around the world have sent their congratulations via Twitter to Bezos and Jassy.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, took note of the achievements of Mr. Jassy and said: ‘a well-deserved recognition of what you have achieved’.
Congratulations to @JeffBezos and @ajassy about your new roles. A well-deserved recognition of what you have achieved.
– Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) 2 February 2021
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff also said on Twitter that Amazon “could not be in better hands.”
happiness @ajassy! Amazon could not be in better hands. ????
– Marc Benioff (@ Benioff) 2 February 2021
Mr. Bezos, 57, founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and has since grown into a colossus dominating online retail, with music and television, groceries, cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and more.
Mr. Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 as marketing manager and founded AWS in 2003, the cloud services division of the company that was one of the technology giant’s most profitable but least known units.