Biography | Andy Jassy — Day 1, 5 July 2021

People treat the cloud unit as the last title he held. The company title changed on this block. Day 1 stands at 2121 7th Avenue in Seattle's Denny Triangle, a 37-storey NBBJ tower that opened on 7 November 2016 as part of Amazon's three-tower campus. On 2 February 2021 the company said Jeff Bezos would become executive chairman and that Jassy, then chief executive of Amazon Web Services, would succeed him. The handover date was fixed later: 5 July 2021, twenty-seven years after Amazon's incorporation on 5 July 1994. Adam Selipsky took the AWS chair as Jassy moved. Jassy had joined in 1997, when the firm had a few hundred employees. By the week he took the company title the headcount was more than a million. The building is a corporate campus named for the company's oldest operating slogan, not a private house. The pin is the public tower. It does not mark a current office floor or a home. Photo: Adamajreynolds, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons