{"id":31279,"date":"2021-02-02T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31279"},"modified":"2021-02-02T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:38:55","slug":"bezos-stepping-down-as-amazon-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31279","title":{"rendered":"Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Jeff Bezos, Amazon\u2019s founder and chief executive, will hand over the reins of the e-commerce giant this summer and transition into the role of executive chairman, the company announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Andy Jassy, the chief executive of Amazon\u2019s cloud computing division, will be promoted to run all of Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Mr. Bezos had stepped back from much of the day-to-day business over several years, though the pandemic\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/22\/technology\/bezos-amazon-coronavirus.html\">pulled him back in<\/a>\u00a0last spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-8atqhb\">\u201cRight now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition,\u201d Mr. Bezos said in a statement.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/company-news\/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees?tag=bisafetynet2-20\">https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/company-news\/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees?tag=bisafetynet2-20<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, Amazon\u2019s founder and chief&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31281,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279\/revisions\/31281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}