• At 82 in space with Bezos: Wally's revenge

  • Jeff Bezos leaves the position of Amazon CEO to trusted Andy Jassy

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    Jeff Bezos "tourist in space" with his brother

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04 July 2021 Less than 16 days for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch into space on 20 July. Bezos will leave with his brother Mark, with them there will be two passengers whose identity has not yet been revealed. One of them bought the ticket at the auction for 28 million dollars.



But the eccentric multimillionaire does not leave the online sales giant he created and with which he made it: Amazon will be entrusted from tomorrow to the leadership of Andy R. Jassy for whom Bezos has an unconditional esteem.



However, he remains executive president, therefore not only a guarantee figure but also put in a position to intervene at any time in case of need on the strategic choices of his creation. The announcement of the changing of the guard is a few months ago: Jassy will take up the position of CEO of Amazon tomorrow, July 5, on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the foundation.



"Andy is well known in the company, will be a fantastic leader and has my full confidence. In my role as executive chairman," he says, "I intend to focus my energy and attention on new products and initiatives," said Bezos. Among the initiatives that he and Jassy will soon have to respond to, there is certainly the tax on multinationals that the EU, at the OECD headquarters, has decided to activate.



Taxation that will go hand in hand with the web tax and that will impact the mega-platform accounts. All this will happen just a few days before the flight into space: Brussels intends to unveil its taxation proposal in detail only after the G20 Finance meeting on 9 and 10 July in Venice in order not to "interfere" in the negotiations.



It will be up to Jassy to study the first steps to contain the damage which, by draining resources, could also have an impact on the share prices of Amazon which, however, boasts a world-wide turnover of over 380 billion dollars and which, thanks to a profit of 11 billion and thanks to the reforms of former US president Donald Trump, he has not paid a cent in taxes in recent years. This is thanks to the rule in force in the States according to which the funds invested (research and development or machinery) are 100% deductible. Further tax savings are guaranteed by the employee stock option system, ie share packages instead of monetary bonuses. Also in this case these are deductible funds and the advantage is that the more the shares increase, the less you pay taxes.



The heads of the presidential administration have also changed and the richest man in the world, a fortune of over $ 180 billion who contends with Bernard Arnault and and Elon Musk even after the disastrous divorce from his wife last year, which made the ex spouse one of the richest women in America, leaves Jassy many headaches, especially on the accounts and on the union level: always opposed to worker representatives, Amazon recently collected in the United States the victory of its employees' no the formation of an internal trade union. But Jassy, ​​born in 1968, in the company for years, will be able to console himself thanks to a package of shares of 200 million that Amazon will find on his desk to urge him to make a new commitment.



52 years after man's first flight to the moon, the era of space tourism is therefore about to begin. A trip per hour for the super rich, as a place to travel alongside MrAmazon was auctioned for $ 28 million. In recent days petitions have sprung up on the web asking to leave Bezos in space, so far they have been signed by more than 100 thousand people. "The billionaires should not exist - writes one of the signatories on Change.org - neither on Earth nor in Space but, if they had to decide for the latter, they should stay there".