Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO

Published February 2, 2021 9:15pm ET



Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step down as the company’s chief executive officer to take on an executive chairman role.

The company made the announcement in its fourth-quarter financial results, noting that Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy would transition to Bezos’s current position by the third quarter of 2021.

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