Andy Jassy, an Amazon pioneer, inherits Bezos’s challenges and rewards

New York: Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy has been a trusted lieutenant to founder Jeff Bezos since the early days of the online behemoth, but he is taking over a company that faces new scrutiny to its expanding influence.

Jassy was just 29 when he joined Amazon in 1997, three years after Bezos started a then-modest business from his Seattle garage.

With an MBA degree in hand, Jassy left prestigious Harvard Business School “the first Friday of May in 1997 and started at Amazon the next Monday,” he told the Disruptive Voice podcast in September.