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Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland. (Tanium Photo)
Tanium co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi may not be as well known as Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates or other Seattle area billionaires.
After all, it was just a few months ago that Hindawi and his family left the San Francisco Bay Area for Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood, bringing his $9 billion cybersecurity company to the region along with him.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy speaks at re:Invent 2018. (GeekWire Photo)
Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he takes over from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos later this year. The chicken wing lovin’ 53-year-old tech executive also will face a host of challenges from labor force issues to a sprawling empire of disconnected businesses to intense government scrutiny.
But one longtime partner thinks there’s an even bigger challenge staring Jassy right in the face. And it connects directly to Jassy’s current day job of leading Amazon Web Services, the cloud juggernaut that earlier this week disclosed a mind-blowing $13.5 billion in operating profit last year. (As GeekWire’s Todd Bishop noted, that figure accounted for more than 63% of Amazon’s entire operating profits for the year),