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• @jasonschreier Jason Schreier on x

  Scoop with @Priyasideas - on Monday, the day before he was named CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy sent an email to staff reacting to Bloomberg's story and reaffirming his commitment to video games. As Google exits game development, Amazon's new boss is all-in: https://www.bloomberg.com/…

• @jasonschreier Jason Schreier on x

  Jassy and Amazon Game Studios boss Mike Frazzini both sent out emails to staff reacting to our story, calling it “nasty” and “exaggerated.” Read the article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @mattmday Matt Day on x

  “Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years,. Though we haven't consistently succeeded yet in AGS, I believe we will if we hang in there.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @cat_zakrzewski Cat Zakrzewski on x

  Amazon's leadership shakeup comes at the most politically perilous moment in the company's history. Lawmakers are already warning incoming CEO Andy Jassy to prepare for more regulatory scrutiny. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @bydanielgilbert Daniel Gilbert on x

  There were barely 20 publicly traded companies in the U.S. w/ $100B in revenue in the most recent year. Amazon brought in $125B in *three months*

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  Outside of China, is there any company ever that had close to $400 billion in revenue and grew at nearly 40% in a year? https://twitter.com/...

• @bydanielgilbert Daniel Gilbert on x

  The more you break it down the more astounding Amazon's cash generation is: $58.9 million every hour. $947k per minute. $15,795 a second.

• @bydanielgilbert Daniel Gilbert on x

  Amazon brought in 4x as much money in three months as Starbucks did in a year (pre Covid)

• @bydanielgilbert Daniel Gilbert on x

  I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the cash flowing into Amazon. It's astonishing anyway you slice it. https://twitter.com/...

• @charliebilello Charlie Bilello on x

  41% annualized revenue growth under Jeff Bezos since Amazon went public in 1997. One for the record books, will be hard for anyone to top. $AMZN https://twitter.com/...

• @ericfranchi Eric Franchi on x

  Amazon's “Other” revenue (majority of which is comprised of advertising) grew 66% in Q4 vs 50% in Q3. Incredible.

• @film_girl @film_girl on x

  It's hard to think of another CEO who has founded and grown a company the way Jeff Bezos has over the last 26 years. It's almost unprecedented levels of success under one CEO.

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  The incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on facial recognition and potential police abuse: “Let's see if they somehow abuse the technology. To assume they're going to do it and therefore you shouldn't allow them to have access ... doesn't feel like the right balance to me” https://twit…

• @repkenbuck Congressman Ken Buck on x

  I have some questions for Mr. Jassy. https://twitter.com/...

• @rajiinio Deb Raji on x

  Knives don't require the hoarding of my biometric information. Also, knives work. Can't stand this dual use argument when used to justify AI deployments that aren't even functional. Also annoyed with comparisons that ignore the tech's unique, data-specific ethical implications. h…

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  Almost everything you hated about Amazon under Jeff Bezos will likely get worse under Andy Jassy. After all, the incoming CEO ran AWS as it massively expanded contracts with ICE, the fossil fuel industry, police, and the military & intelligence services. https://www.vice.com/...

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  9/ The move affords Mr Bezos more time to focus on his media, climate & space endeavours but I suspect he will still be involved in major corporate initiatives. Amazon is so big now, no matter what his higher calling involves, it will still have @ least indirect impact on Amazon

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  10/ Along with his successor at AWS (which will be another key move to watch), above all, Mr Jassy will need to maintain trust in the Amazon brand given these issues. This moment will mark a major turning point in how Amazon operates in future IMO. Will be fascinating to watch!//

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  8/ The key question will be: how Mr Jassy manages some of the inevitable bumps in the road - antitrust, workers rights and employee activism which will require his public voice more so than Mr Bezos alongside high expectations for growth?

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  5/ I think under Mr Jassy, there will be a deeper focus on the integration of assets. What we are seeing now in cloud for example are more corporate-type deals that involve wider alignment with customers' IT & customer-facing operations & a cloud provider's B2B & B2C businesses.

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  4/ AWS has historically been quite *careful* with its relationship with the parent due to many concerns from enterprises and regulators on how it leverages technology from the ecommerce arm & how it manages the adoption of its cloud solutions by https://amazon.com/.

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  3/ He also fully understands the wealth of assets across Amazon's flywheel of operations. The cloud business should emerge higher up the pecking order now as a result & will benefit from Mr Jassy driving the corporate organisation.

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  6/ He has also proven to be outspoken on broader socio-political issues & will face an increasingly scrutinous media & regulator community as it becomes more powerful. Calls for its breakup will grow louder but I can see him being more vocal in Amazon's defence as a result.

• @nickmcquire Nicholas McQuire on x

  2/ Jeff Bezos created the blueprint for internet businesses: rapid innovation, huge scale & relentless focus on the customer. Few people on the planet have the DNA & experience managing such high growth / high innovation businesses at scale as Andy Jassy.

• @reductress @reductress on x

  Jeff Bezos to Become First Amazon Worker To Get A Break: https://ow.ly/... https://twitter.com/...