Biography | Andy Jassy — Soldiers Field, Then Monday at Amazon

People treat the cloud division as the first Amazon room he entered. The first badge was a marketing manager's, and it started after this campus. Harvard Business School occupies Soldiers Field in Allston, across the Charles from the College. Jassy came back here after five years of other work. Those years included a project-manager stretch at MBI, a collectibles firm, and a short-lived company started with a colleague. Neither path held. He finished the MBA in 1997. Accounts of the last week agree on the shape if not the exact Friday: he sat a final exam, then reported to Amazon in Seattle the following Monday. The company was then a three-year-old bookseller with a few hundred people on the payroll. It went public on 15 May 1997, days after he arrived. Recruiters would not tell him the title or the department before he started. He began in marketing. Within a few years Jeff Bezos pulled him into an eighteen-month shadow role, a chief-of-staff job that put him in board meetings and on the founder's calls. The house where a 2003 offsite later framed the cloud idea is a private residence and is not pinned. Photo: Dariusz Jemielniak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons