{"id":77107,"date":"2021-02-03T03:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77107"},"modified":"2021-02-03T02:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T07:59:31","slug":"jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-to-take-over-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-to-take-over-in-q3.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=AMZN\">Amazon<\/a> CEO Jeff Bezos will leave his post later this year, turning the helm over to the company\u2019s top cloud executive, Andy Jassy, according to an announcement Tuesday. Bezos will transition to executive chairman of Amazon\u2019s board. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Bezos<\/a>, 57, founded Amazon in 1994 and has since morphed the one-time online bookstore into a mega-retailer with global reach in a slew of different categories from gadgets to groceries to streaming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/31\/amazon-amzn-reaches-1-trillion-market-cap.html\">Amazon surpassed a $1 trillion market cap<\/a> under Bezos\u2019 leadership in January of last year \u2014 it\u2019s now worth more than $1.6 trillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/02\/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-to-take-over-in-q3.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will leave his post later this year, turning the helm over to the company\u2019s top cloud executive, Andy Jassy, according to an announcement Tuesday. Bezos will transition to executive chairman of Amazon\u2019s board. Bezos, 57, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77108,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77107\/revisions\/77108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}