Andy Jassy

He graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997, the same year he joined Amazon as a marketing manager. In 2003 Jassy pitched the idea of a cloud computing platform to Jeff Bezos. He then founded and built Amazon Web Services from scratch, growing it into the world's dominant cloud infrastructure provider. By the time he was named CEO, AWS was generating over $60 billion in annual revenue and had become Amazon's primary profit engine. As CEO since July 2021, Jassy has navigated Amazon through a challenging post-pandemic recalibration — cutting over 27,000 jobs, shutting unprofitable initiatives, and refocusing the company on operational efficiency. He has simultaneously accelerated Amazon's AI strategy, investing heavily in generative AI services through AWS Bedrock and a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Anthropic. Jassy is known for his intense, detail-oriented leadership style rooted in Amazon's "Day 1" culture. He writes six-page narrative memos instead of slide decks and is famous for deep-diving into operational metrics. His strategic vision centers on making Amazon the default AI infrastructure provider while maintaining dominance in e-commerce and logistics.