Associated Press
- Andy Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 and became CEO in 2021 when Jeff Bezos stepped down.
- Before becoming CEO, Jassy founded Amazon Web Services and grew it to a $40 billion business.
- He's overseen a tough macroeconomic period as CEO with Amazon stock plunging 51% in 2022.
Andy Jassy became Amazon's second CEO in 2021 when the company's founder Jeff Bezos stepped down.
Jassy joined Amazon in 1997, the year the company went public, according to his corporate bio. He held different leadership positions at the company before founding AWS, the company's cloud computing platform, in 2006.