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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping company, has announced that he will step down as CEO.
Bezos is expected to face off against Elon Musk, his opponent, while focusing on the space industry.
Reporter Seo Hye-yeon on the press.
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Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the world’s richest man and icon of innovation.
Since the third quarter of this year, he has announced that he will withdraw from the position of Amazon’s chief executive officer, who has been working for 27 years.
In a letter to his employees, he said, “I will focus on the philanthropy and space exploration company Blue Origin and The Washington Post,” and drew the line that he “is not retiring.”
Starting from a small warehouse in 1995 as an internet bookstore, this is his step toward a new challenge, raising the world’s largest online company.
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“Bezos has shown what technology can do to a lot of people who say it’s impossible.”
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“This is (Moon Lander)’Blue Moon’.”
The space industry is expected to focus most of his attention.
Bay Jones has already established’Blue Origin’, a private space company in the last 2000 years, and has been devoted to developing rockets and spacecraft.
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“You don’t choose passion, passion chooses you. I watched a video of a human reaching the moon when I was five, and it had a huge impact on me.”
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, an everlasting rival, has also established’Space X’and is engaged in a nervous war with Bezos.
Unfortunately, on the day Bezos announced his resignation from Amazon’s CEO, Musk’s SpaceX was developing a spacecraft for migration to Mars that exploded during landing.
Billionaires from Earth to space.
The world’s attention is on their actions.
This is Hye-yeon Seo of MBC News.
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