Sundar Pichai to Satya Nadella tweets on discontinuation of Jeff Bezos
On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai extended his warm greetings to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy who are embarking on their new roles after the Amazon founder decided to step down from the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk surpassed Bezos in terms of wealth becoming the richest man in the world.
Bezos declared his transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter, passing the baton of CEO to Andy Jassy who currently heads Amazon Web Series. The Indian-American and Stanford Graduate executive, Pichai also sent his warm regards for two passion projects of outgoing Amazon CEO Day 1 Fund and Bezos Earth Fund. He tweeted, "Congratulations @JeffBezos, best wishes for Day 1 and Earth Fund. Congrats @ajassy on your new role."
Bezos in a letter to Amazon employees claimed that he would be part of important ventures of the company. He will contribute towards philanthropic initiatives comprising Day 1 Funds and Earth funds and other business ventures in journalism and space explorations. Many leading business tycoons and prominent personalities flooded twitter with their wishes to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft acknowledged Jassy's achievements tweeted, "a well deserved recognition of what you have made."
Furthermore, CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff took to his twitter handle saying that Amazon couldn't be in better hands. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage and made efforts since then to build a great platform dominating online retail. He then empowered the platform with operations in streaming music and television, buying groceries, robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and more. Jassy, on the other hand joined Amazon in 1997 as a marketing manager and in 2003 found AWS, forming the cloud services division of a company which emerged as the most profitable but least known unit of tech giants.
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