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Amazon’s new CEO

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Recode’s Jason Del Rey talks about Bezos’s complicated legacy as Amazon’s founder and CEO and how his successor, Andy Jassy might run things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surprised everyone Tuesday with the announcement that he was

0:08.6

leaving his position as Amazon CEO.

0:11.9

Bezos will step aside in the third quarter to become the company's executive chair.

0:16.7

It's big news and here to talk about what it means and who this replacement for the

0:20.8

one and only Jeff Bezos is, Rico's Jason Delray.

0:24.0

Hey Jason.

0:25.0

Hello Teddy.

0:26.5

So I think everybody knows who Jeff Bezos is at this point.

0:30.2

He's got about some like 90% a name ID, but you know, he's been around for 30 years

0:36.8

almost at this point.

0:38.2

Can you give me like the quick rundown on what you think his legacy is at Amazon?

0:42.5

Yeah.

0:43.5

I mean, he's a larger than life figure and I think in the business world and maybe outside

0:48.3

of the business world now, he built one of the most amazing corporations we've ever

0:54.7

seen.

0:55.7

Sort of the breadth of what Amazon does well across different industries is really largely

1:01.8

unmatched.

1:02.8

He's done a lot of good for a lot of different customers around the globe, you know, hundreds

1:06.8

of millions of people who get their packages quickly or on the business side, you know,

1:12.5

the software they need at a good price.

1:15.4

But as you see, it's also one of immense power that comes with cost.

1:21.0

How hard Amazon pushes its frontline workforce.

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