“These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking and innovative solutions. But I think cities are so better off working with the business community towards joint solutions, rather than trying to tax them.”

American business executive, since 2021

Andrew R. Jassy is an American business executive. Since July 2021, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Amazon, succeeding founder Jeff Bezos, who remained executive chairman. Jassy founded Amazon Web Services and led it from the start. He was its chief executive from April 2016 until July 2021, after helping build it into Amazon’s cloud computing division.