"Jassy's one of the most powerful leaders not just within the cloud and the tech sector but in the world of business." "AWS and Jassy - they're the gatekeepers," Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, told Insider. The decision has also sparked renewed interest in Jassy, a 24-year veteran of Amazon and one of its most powerful executives, who sits at the helm of AWS - a position that makes him an invaluable asset for the company, even as recent events have demonstrated his unprecedented influence over the direction of the internet. Amazon ultimately decided to ban Parler because the app, favored heavily by far-right extremists for its lax content-moderation policies, had not done enough to limit violent content.īy banning Parler, Amazon has turned up the heat on the debate around the tech industry's power and influence over public discourse. One of the big decisions made in a recent Chop meeting, held virtually because of the pandemic, was the call to cut off the social-media app Parler from Amazon's cloud-hosting service. He's a shark who will smell a drop of blood from 100 miles away if you're not ready." "He has a tremendous amount of trust in his team, but you have to be at the highest levels of diligence and preparation for any meeting with him. "If you go to a Chop meeting with Andy, you better be ready," one former senior-level employee told Insider. The Chop is also where big ideas, and sometimes employees, go to get chopped down to size, according to people familiar with the company. Originally the name of a physical conference room next to his office at Amazon's Seattle headquarters - short for "Charterhouse of Parma," a book Jassy read in college - the Chop has also come into use as a catchall term for the meetings where Jassy holds his most important brainstorming and planning sessions. When Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has a big decision to make, it usually comes at the Chop. The headline has been updated to reflect the news. On July 5, Andy Jassy officially became Amazon CEO, succeeding Jeff Bezos, who steps into the position of executive chairman. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Įditor's note: This story was originally published January 31, 2021.Current and former employees describe him as hard-charging and obsessed with customer experience.Jassy grew Amazon Web Services into a $40 billion business as its leader.Andy Jassy officially becomes CEO of Amazon on Monday, succeeding Jeff Bezos.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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