Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are heading out on a getaway.
03.02.2021 - 20:46 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJeff Bezos, after 27 years building Amazon into a global retailing superpower — and personally amassing an ungodly amount of money — later this year will relinquish the CEO spot.In a surprise announcement, Amazon on Tuesday said Bezos will step down as chief exec in the third quarter of 2021 to become executive chairman.
His handpicked successor is Andy Jassy (above right), the CEO of Amazon Web Services, who is relatively unknown to the ecommerce-shopping masses
.Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are heading out on a getaway.
Good in the ‘Wood Wednesdays, where we share good news happening in Hollywood and beyond. For this week’s #HollyGOOD news: We’re telling you why Jeff Bezos stepping down as CEO of Amazon is good news.Bezos announced his decision in a leaked letter to employees on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
You’ll have to forgive anyone in Hollywood whose response to the Feb. 2 news that Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO was, “who?” An Amazon lifer, Jassy spent nearly two decades running the Seattle e-commerce giant’s highly profitable cloud-computing division, a role that hardly put him in a position to rub elbows with the creatives making films and TV shows for Amazon Studios.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has made a deal to develop the comedy adventure Lost and Found as a starring vehicle for Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi, with Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) directing. Pink and Jeff Morris wrote the script, about a headstrong lawyer and an off-the-grid renegade who reluctantly team up to find a long-lost buried treasure by the Mississippi River.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has stunned staff at the e-commerce company by announcing he is stepping down as CEO.Bezos, the second richest man in the world, founded the company 27 years ago and announced his decision in a letter to employees on Tuesday (February 2, 2021).He revealed the switch will take place in the third quarter of 2021, when Amazon Web Services CEO, Andy Jassy, will take over.Bezos will become the executive chair of Amazon’s board.“I intend to focus my energies and attention on
Jimmy Fallon was joined by country music legend Dolly Parton and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” star Noah Centineo on Friday’s edition of “The Tonight Show”, where the three played a round of “True Confessions”.
After generating attention primarily through TV series since its move into original content, Amazon Studios is enjoying some good news on the film front — care of Wednesday’s Golden Globe Awards nominations. Of the streamer’s 10 total nominations, seven come courtesy of feature ventures.
Amazon’s CEO, but the company will still stay committed to making more video games.This is according to an email from incoming CEO Andy Jassy, who has expressed his support for Amazon Game Studios despite its troubled history. For context, last year the developer released the online shooter Crucible, which flopped so badly that the studio unreleased the game and subsequently cancelled it.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAmazon Studios head Jennifer Salke doesn’t expect Jeff Bezos to turn his attention to producing as he steps down as Amazon CEO — but she doesn’t rule it out either.Variety took the opportunity on Wednesday morning to ask Salke — calling in to chat about the Golden Globes 2021 nominations — about Bezos’ big news.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' decision to leave his CEO role later this year caught Wall Street by surprise on Feb. 2, but several analysts sharing their thoughts on the elevation of Andy Jassy to CEO expressed confidence in the promotion.
APPOINTMENTSAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO. He has an exciting new gig as, well, Executive Chair of Amazon.
McDormand revealed that she indeed wrote to Amazon’s senior VP of business and corporate development Jeff Blackburn, explaining the story that director Chloé Zhao (the director of 2017’s sleeper hit “The Rider”) was planning to tell.Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaA shot inside the Amazon warehouse in “Nomadland” (Searchlight Pictures)The film, based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First
Decades after founding Amazon.com in his garage in 1994, 57-year-old Jeff Bezos has made the decision to step down as the company’s Chief Executive Officer later this year, according to CNBC. The billionaire announced on February 2, 2021 that he will transition later this year to the role as executive officer of Amazon‘s board.
Mackenzie Scott, Ex-wife Of Jeff Bezos, Gave $4.2 Billion To Charity Amazon's Jeff Bezos ‘Happy’ to Lose Anti-Black Lives Matter Customers Jeff Bezos and Girlfriend Lauren Sanchez Make Their Red Carpet Debut as a Couple