What’s next for Jeff Bezos: Amazon’s $188bn founder seeks to conquer space and save the planet
Former Amazon executives will tell you that Jeff Bezos likes control. The billionaire’s love of “six pagers” – a lengthy memo read out loud at the beginning of each Amazon meeting – along with his interest in every single nut and bolt keeping the $1.7 trillion company running, made his bombshell decision to quit as chief executive all the more surprising. “I won’t go as far as to say he was a micromanager, but he was a micromanager” says Jon Reily, a former Amazon hardware executive who worked with Bezos for five years, and recalls the Amazon founder getting deeply involved in how menus worked on Amazon’s touchscreen tablets. “That is just his personality.” Like Reily, many are already sceptical about how much power Bezos will relinquish even after handing over the reins to former Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy. “The changes in the pace of time start to become glaringly apparent to men in their fifties.” Bezos alluded to the ticking clock in an email sent to employees upon his resignation.
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