{"id":31292,"date":"2021-02-02T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31292"},"modified":"2021-02-02T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:40:44","slug":"bezos-stepping-down-as-amazon-ceo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31292","title":{"rendered":"Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Tuesday that CEO Jeff Bezos will be transitioning from the top spot into the role of executive chair of the company\u2019s board in the third quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as Amazon, the e-commerce giant Bezos founded in 1994, reported its highest quarterly revenue ever, at $125 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at our financial results, what you\u2019re actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition,\u201d Bezos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He will be succeeded by Andy Jassy, the current head of Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Tuesday that CEO Jeff&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292","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=31292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31294,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions\/31294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}