Amazon Unpacked A-Z

It doesn’t matter that Jeff Bezos has stepped down: No industry is safe from the company’s relentless ambition. A complete guide to Amazon’s staggeringly large and ever-mutating domain, most of which you can’t even see.

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Meet Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy

He controls a company that touches our lives in infinite ways. It’s probably a good idea to know who he is.

How old is he? Jassy is 53.

Where is he from? He grew up in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb of New York City. His father was a corporate lawyer at Dewey Ballantine; his mother was a trustee for a youth theater program. His older sister, Kathy Savitt, once worked at Amazon, and is now the president and chief commercial officer of Boom Supersonic, an aviation startup.

Where did he go to school? After graduating from the public Scarsdale High School, where he played varsity soccer and tennis, he went to Harvard, where he majored in government and was the advertising manager for the Harvard Crimson. He received an MBA from Harvard as well.

What was his first job? Amazon! At least, that was his first after business school. “I took my last final exam at HBS [on] the first Friday of May, in 1997, and I started at Amazon the next Monday. No, I didn’t know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be. It was super important to the Amazon people that we come that Monday,” Jassy said in a Harvard Business School podcast. He became a marketing manager.