Alexa, tell me a joke about Jeff Bezos retiring as CEO of Amazon.
The founder of the online shopping giant entered the business world Tuesday with the announcement that Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will take over as CEO in the third quarter of 2021, while in which Bezos will remain executive chairman of the company that was involved in a $ 100 billion record last quarter.
And this should come as no surprise that the news was a major fodder for fun at the expense of Bezos on TWTR Twitter,
with many posters making fun of his wealth, or mentioning the recent GameStop GME,
stock rollercoaster – or mark the physical resemblance between the Amazon AMZN,
Superman’s founder and wealthy archnemesis, Lex Luthor.
While Tesla TSLA,
CEO Elon Musk soon put Bezos as the richest person in the world last month, the Amazon honcho is back in the top spot with a net worth of more than $ 196 billion since Tuesday afternoon, according to Forbes. This led to strong ideas about what the billion-dollar entrepreneur could do next, or at least he may have hit an even bigger jackpot recently by selling shares of GameStop.
“Jeff Bezos retires as Chief Executive, while transitioning to just being rich—” a man’s crack.
Some tied it up by leaving the controversial design of Amazon’s new Virginia office building that surfaced earlier Tuesday:
Of course, Bezos’ s wealth has also exposed him to criticism about the working conditions at Amazon warehouses, and how low – paid Amazon employees were compensated during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the company’s popularity. to a very high year in 2020, reporting $ 125.6 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter. Historically, the company has fought the efforts of their employees for union, and they have seen COVID-19 infections at their stores and in their Whole Foods stores. Amazon employees around the world went on strike on Black Friday to complain about their working conditions.
But there were also some other readers who couldn’t resist drawing on their experience buying from Amazon to think about Bezos ’move.
Bezos stated in a letter to staff that it intends to “focus my energy and attention on new products and early ventures,” such as the Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin and The Washington Post.