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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland.

This week we'll discuss one quasi-exit and another dramatic arrival.

First, Jeff Bezos, the bazillionaire founder of Amazon.com, decided to step down as chief executive officer of the $1.7 trillion company and hand the

baton to Andy Jassy. As my colleague, Jennifer Saba explains, it's not quite the end of an era, though.

First, Bezos will continue as executive chairman, and he still owns more than a tenth of the

company. So while he may not have a veto over the board of directors, let's just say he'll have a lot of influence over Amazon's direction. But it's a big promotion for

Jassy, who has been at Amazon for decades and laterally running AWS, the web services

business that punches way above its weight in terms of growth and most importantly, profitability

inside the company. From Seattle, we head all the way across the Atlantic

to Rome, where Mario Draghi has been summoned by the Italian president to succeed Giuseppe

Conte as prime minister. Super Mario, as many call him for effectively saving Europe single currency

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