Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy in ‘hot seat’ as Alabama workers consider union
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Posted Feb 07, 2021
AWS CEO Andy Jassy, discusses a new initiative with the NFL that will transform player health and safety using cloud computing during AWS re:Invent 2019 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for NFL)AP
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By Katherine Khashimova Long The Seattle Times (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
Andy Jassy’s first seat at Amazon when he joined the company in 1997 was in an office “the size of a closet” in an early Amazon headquarters with stained carpets overlooking a needle exchange near Pike Place Market, said his then-officemate Brian Birtwistle. The space was so small the backs of their chairs touched.