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A few years after Jassy had joined the company, after graduating from Harvard Business School, he was almost fired during lay-offs. He was saved from that by Bezos. Jassy’s career, before stepping into Bezos’ shoes, was playing the role of a CEO of Amazon Web Services.

Jassy is the kind of person that embodies everything that Jeff Bezos stands for. Jassy is known as a ‘man of mechanism’, who is able to sit through countless hours of meetings, digest massive amounts of paperwork and works with ‘inhuman levels of discipline’, which would serve him well as the new leader of one of the largest companies on the planet.

Jassy’s job in India becomes not just about expanding and keeping the business thriving in the booming Indian market but to re-establish a healthy relationship with the Indian government. It is not certain as of yet what the new CEO’s approach will be to tackling these issues in the near future, but having been groomed by Bezos himself, there is a lot to live up to for the 53-year-old businessman.

Bezos is currently focusing on his other passions such as flying to space via his aerospace company, ‘Blue Origin’, and is also planning on investing more time and effort into other projects such as ‘Washington Post’, his media organisation along with his charity foundations – the ‘Bezos Day One Fund’ and the ‘Bezos Earth Fund’.