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Why former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke thinks the U.S. can be a manufacturing powerhouse again
May 4, 2021 at 7:28 am
Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Business, shows off the company’s delivery drone at an Amazon conference in Las Vegas in June 2019. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)
When Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon Consumer Worldwide, made the surprise announcement in August that he was leaving, he said he felt it was time to do something else.
“Time for me to take time to explore personal interests that have taken a back seat for over two decades,” Wilke wrote in a heartfelt letter to Amazon’s employees.
Former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke on why he left, what it was like to work for Jeff Bezos, and more
May 2, 2021 at 9:58 pm
Former Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong)
In March, Jeff Wilke quietly stepped away from Amazon, the company he was instrumental in building from an online book retailer to one of the most valuable and influential corporations in the world.
As CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer since 2016, he oversaw the company’s vast retail business, Prime, the Amazon marketplace, Amazon stores, marketing and Whole Foods.
When Wilke joined Amazon in 1999 to oversee operations, the company was doing about $2 billion of revenue a year. Now it brings in about $1 billion every day and last week announced its sales grew by an astonishing 44% year-over-year.