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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="191583" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jeff-Bezos">Jeff Bezos</keyword> said Tuesday that <keyword id="742297" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Andy-Jassy">Andy Jassy</keyword> would succeed him as <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword>'s CEO.</li><li><keyword id="10695928" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elana-jassy">Elana Jassy</keyword>, the AWS CEO's wife, donated to Sen. <keyword id="6656369" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bernie-Sanders">Bernie Sanders</keyword> in 2016.</li><li>Sanders has been a staunch critic of Amazon, once proposing the "Stop BEZOS Act" in the Senate.</li></ul>Elana Jassy, the wife of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-2021-2">newly announced Amazon CEO-to-be</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1">Andy Jassy</a>, donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2016 bid for the presidency.Elana Jassy gave $250 to Sanders' campaign in February 2016, during his primary contest against Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination, according to FEC records <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Jassy&amp;cycle=&amp;state=WA&amp;zip=&amp;employ=&amp;cand=mp;employ=&amp;cand=">published by the Center for Responsive Politics</a>. She donated $750 to Clinton in July of that year, after she won the Democratic nomination.Jeff Bezos <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-2021-2">announced Tuesday</a> that Andy Jassy would become the new CEO of Amazon later this year as he moved to an executive chairman role and focused his energies on other efforts, including Blue Origin and the Washington Post.Andy and Elana Jassy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/24/style/elana-caplan-and-andrew-jassy.html">married in 1997</a>, and property records show the two appear to own a home together with the same Seattle zip code as the Elana Jassy identified in the FEC records.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1?r=ah-sub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Andy Jassy will be the next CEO of Amazon. Insiders dish on what it's like to work for Jeff Bezos' likely successor who built AWS into a $40 billion business.</a>Elana Jassy didn't donate to any candidates during the 2020 presidential primaries. In September 2020, she donated $2,800 to now-President Joe Biden's campaign, as well as to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a group affiliated with the Democratic National Committee, according to FEC records. She has also donated to other high-profile Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<div type="image" title="Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy" height="1241" width="2483" msid="80660148" hostid="261"></div>Andy Jassy, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1?r=ah-sub">a two-decade company man who rose to power through building Amazon Web Services</a>, has confined his political contributions of tens of thousands of dollars to the Amazon corporate political action committee, which contributes to both parties. The records published by the Center for Responsive <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword> do not show any donations from him to individual political candidates.As the incoming CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy will have to deftly navigate labor issues, governmental oversight, and a rising tide on the left that large corporations and the wealth they accrue should be scrutinized closely.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/over-40-of-amazon-employees-support-unionization-insider-survey-shows-2021-1">More than 40% of surveyed Amazon employees say they wished they were in a union, a new Insider survey shows</a>One of those salient voices has been Sanders. The Vermont senator has been a vocal critic of Amazon, in 2018 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/05/bernie-sanders-introduces-stop-bezos-act-senate/">introducing the "Stop BEZOS Act"</a> that would have required large employers, such as Amazon, to pay the government an additional tax that would cover worker benefits. He has also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-send-amazon-letter-over-union-video-2018-10">clashed with the company over its opposition to labor unions</a>.Sanders has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-democrat-candidates-stance-breaking-up-tech-2019-10">argued in favor of breaking up big tech companies</a>, including Amazon.At an industry conference in 2019, Andy Jassy <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/11/tech-breakup-threats-1522531">said Amazon's executives "don't spend a lot of time talking about"</a> breaking up the company.

The wife of Amazon's new CEO-to-be donated to Bernie Sanders in 2016

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="742297" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Andy-Jassy">Andy Jassy</keyword> will take over as <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> CEO on July 5, 2021. </li><li>Jassy has been at Amazon since 1997 and built <keyword id="291131" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AWS">AWS</keyword> into a $40 billion business. </li><li>He's a huge sports fan, loves beef jerky, and is known as a kind but exacting leader.</li></ul>On July 5, Andy Jassy will become only the second CEO in Amazon's history. The 53-year-old Amazon veteran is taking over the top job after 15 years spent growing Amazon's cloud unit into a $40 billion business. Once Amazon founder <keyword id="191583" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jeff-Bezos">Jeff Bezos</keyword> passes the torch, Jassy will oversee one of the world's most valuable companies and one of its largest employers. Known for his obsession with the customer experience and his high standards for those who work under him, Jassy seems like the natural choice to take over for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-you-can-learn-from-jeff-bezos-leadership-style">the famously hard-charging Bezos</a>.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1">Andy Jassy will be the next CEO of Amazon. Insiders dish on what it's like to work for Jeff Bezos' successor, who built AWS into a $40 billion business.</a>With Jassy just days away from taking the helm, here's a look at how he got his start and earned the top job at Amazon. <h2>Jassy grew up outside of New York City and went to Harvard</h2>Jassy was raised in Scarsdale, New York, a ritzy enclave about 20 miles north of New York City. His father, Everett, is a lawyer who was a partner at Manhattan law firm Dewey Ballantine. His mother, Margery, worked as a trustee at youth theater program TheaterWorksUSA, according to <a href="https://archive.is/XK7Wc#selection-417.159-417.188">The New York Times</a>. Jassy attended Harvard University for undergrad, then went on to get his MBA from Harvard as well. In between, he worked as a project manager at collectibles company MBI, according to the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a515eb7a-d0ef-11e5-831d-09f7778e7377">Financial Times' Leslie Hook</a>. <h2>He joined Amazon in 1997 as a marketing manager</h2>Jassy came onboard at Amazon the same year it went public and quickly stood out as a promising hire: Rick Dalzell, the company's chief information officer at the time, told <a href="https://fortune.com/2015/06/28/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services/">Fortune's Leena Rao</a> Jassy had a competitive streak and a photographic memory that set him apart, despite his lack of engineering chops. According to Fortune, Jassy oversaw music sales at Amazon. Then, in 2002, he was chosen as Bezos' first "shadow advisor," essentially a chief-of-staff who accompanied the CEO to all of his meetings for a year or more. <h2>Jassy came up with the idea for AWS and started building it in 2003</h2><div type="image" title="Andy Jassy seated onstage with VMware CEO Parick Gelsinger" height="1549" width="2065" msid="83990265" hostid="261"></div>AWS was Jassy's idea: He wanted to offer up Amazon's expertise in managing troves of e-commerce data, along with its expansive network of data centers, to make data storage cheaper and easier for other companies. He wrote a memo to Bezos to convince him the idea would work, and Bezos signed off in October 2003, according to Fortune.Since then, AWS has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1">grown into a $40 billion business</a> within Amazon, generating more than 60% of the entire company's operating profits. AWS now owns <a href="https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/worldwide-cloud-market-q320">over 30% of the cloud-computing market share.</a>Jassy's work in building AWS has attracted the attention of his industry peers: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer considered Jassy as his successor prior to choosing Satya Nadella, and Jassy was also rumored to take the helm of Uber after Travis Kalanick's departure, Insider reported. <h2>Jassy is known as a down-to-Earth yet exacting leader</h2>He has a packed schedule of seven or eight meetings every day and keeps a close eye on the specifics of AWS' business, including reading every press release before it goes out. But he's also considered an "authentic, genuine, empathetic" boss, company insiders told told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1">Insider's Ashley Stewart and Eugene Kim</a>."He doesn't suffer foolishness," Scott Chancellor, a former AWS director who's now the chief product and technology officer at the IT management software company Apptio, told Insider.Current and former AWS employees also told Insider that Jassy has operated with almost complete autonomy at Amazon, even prior to his upcoming promotion. "Jeff has allowed Andy to do his job without anybody looking over his shoulder," one former senior-level employee said. "It's 100% Andy's show. Jeff does not tell Andy what to do. ... They're almost side-by-side on the org chart."<h2>He's been married since 1997 and has two kids</h2>Jassy and his wife, Elana, <a href="https://archive.is/XK7Wc#selection-405.0-405.21">got married in California</a> in August 1997. The couple has two children together. In October 2020, the Jassys bought a $6.7 million home in Santa Monica, California, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2020/dirt/tech/amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy-buys-prime-santa-monica-home-1234804035/">Variety</a>. The 5,500-square-foot home has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a library, an outdoor kitchen, and an in-ground pool. The Jassys' main residence in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood is a 10,000-square-foot historic landmark. The family bought the house for $3.1 million in 2009, according to Variety.<h2>He's a huge sports fan - and now owns a team</h2><div type="image" title="Andy Jassy" height="2909" width="3879" msid="83990268" hostid="261"></div>Employees told Insider that Jassy continued to use a BlackBerry device long after their early 2000s heyday, loves Dave Matthews Band, and has a fondness for beef jerky - so much so that Amazon's annual re:Invent cloud conference used to have buffet tables full of beef jerky assortments. Jassy also describes himself as an "experienced Buffalo wings eater" on Twitter.Jassy is a huge sports fan, running a football pool with Amazon employees and attending major sporting events like the Super Bowl. Despite living in Seattle since the late 1990s, Jassy is still a fan of his hometown teams: In the basement of his Seattle home, Jassy built his own sports bar in order to watch New York Mets, Giants, and Rangers games, according to Fortune. He took his sports fandom to the next level in 2018 when <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy-joins-nhl-ownership-group-aiming-bring-pro-hockey-seattle/">he became a minority owner</a> the NHL's Seattle Kraken.<h2>Jassy is outspoken about social justice issues</h2>While Bezos has become <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-outspoken-social-media-behavior-2020-6">increasingly public about his opinions</a> in recent years, Jassy is perhaps the most outspoken leader at the company. He's taken to Twitter to condemn <a href="https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1309176233117257728">police killings of Black Americans</a> and recently became the executive sponsor of Amazon's Black Employee Network. Jassy has also been public on Twitter about his thoughts on immigration, LGBTQ discrimination, and affordable housingWhile he's made comments about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-reportedly-aws-is-two-years-ahead-of-microsoft-2019-11">Trump's "disdain" for Amazon,</a> Jassy has mostly steered clear of politics, though his wife, Elana, has made political donations: She <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elana-jassy-amazon-ceo-wife-donated-bernie-sanders-2016-2021-2">donated $250 to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign</a> in 2016 and later gave $750 to Hillary Clinton's campaign after she secured the nomination.

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Good morning! Thank you for joining us for our first week of 10 Things in <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword>. I'm Brent Griffiths. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox each day.</a>Send me your tips, thoughts to <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a> or tweet me @BrentGriffiths. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-police-officer-died-after-siege-lied-in-honor-2021-2">paid their respects last night</a> to slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed during the Capitol riot. Sicknick will continue to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the fifth American ever to receive such a tribute. Here's what you need to know:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-democrats-majority-control-sanders-leahy-warren-manchin-2021-2">Democrats are just one heartbeat away from losing control of the Senate</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-stimulus-congress-biden-minimum-wage-2021-2">The chances of a bipartisan relief deal are fading </a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-asks-court-permission-leave-us-for-mexico-vacation-2021-2">A Capitol riot suspect wants to go on vacation in Mexico</a></li></ul>1. AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM: Washington long ago descended into a gerontocracy. It's a sign both of longer life expectancies and the allure of seniority. But it also means higher risk, especially when parties hold threadbare majorities - even more so during a pandemic.My colleague Kayla Epstein explores this in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-democrats-majority-control-sanders-leahy-warren-manchin-2021-2">her exclusive report this morning</a>. Here's a peek at what she found: Remember if Democrats lose just a single seat, they lose control of the chamber.<ul><li>Key stats: "Six senators - five Democrats and an Independent who caucuses with them - are over age 70 and also represent states with a Republican governor who would have the power to appoint a temporary replacement … A total of 301 senators have passed away before finishing their terms."</li></ul>One crucial point, how would governors respond to a vacancy?: Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont jolted Washington during a health scare last week. Both Vermont and Massachusetts are controlled by Republican governors who would name temporary replacements. A special election would then be held. <ul><li>But winning in a blue state is not guarantee: Democrats learned this the hard way in the Obama era when Republican Scott Brown won in a shocking upset to replace the deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.</li></ul>Be sure to read the rest of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-democrats-majority-control-sanders-leahy-warren-manchin-2021-2">Kayla's exclusive report</a>. (And while you're at it follow <a href="https://twitter.com/KaylaEpstein">her on Twitter</a>!)2. House impeachment managers say Trump is "singularly responsible" for deadly riot: In an 80-page brief, nine House Democrats recount a vast timeline of Trump's behavior before, during, and after the insurrection. Part of the argument is a vivid description of Trump's reportedly delighted reaction to seeing the riot delay the counting of Electoral College votes. (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/politics/impeachment-trump-capitol-riot.html">The New York Times</a>)<ul><li>Trump's team is sticking by its belief that its unconstitutional to impeach a former president: They argue<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lawyers-say-second-impeachment-trial-is-unconstitutional-2021-2"> it's "moot" to try to convict Trump;</a> and that punishing the president for his speech at a rally before the riot would violate his First Amendment rights. </li></ul><div type="image" title="Chuck Schumer" height="2795" width="3726" msid="80668597" hostid="261"></div>3. Democrats are plowing ahead with Biden's relief plan: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/not-a-single-republican-voted-to-advance-the-stimulus-package-2021-2">Every single Senate Republican voted against</a> fast-tracking the package, which they argue is a partisan maneuver. <ul><li>Some unresolved issues: How large will stimulus checks be, and how many Americans will get them? Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia also said he doesn't support a $15 minimum wage, which could imperil its inclusion in the $1.9 trillion package. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-stimulus-congress-biden-minimum-wage-2021-2">Check out my colleague Kimberly Leonard's exclusive report</a>.</li></ul>4. The top things for your calendar, all times Eastern:<ul><li>9:30 a.m.: Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Pete Buttigieg as Transportation secretary. He is the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-confirms-pete-buttigieg-as-transportation-secretary-2021-2">first openly gay Cabinet secretary in history</a>.</li><li>10:00 a.m.: Miguel Cardona, Biden's pick to be Education secretary, faces his Senate confirmation hearing.</li><li>10:30 a.m.: Isabella Casillas Guzman, Biden's pick to be Small Business Administrator, faces her Senate confirmation hearing.</li><li>11:00 a.m.: The White House's pandemic response team and public health officials hold a news briefing.</li><li>2:00 p.m.: Michael Regan, Biden's pick to lead the EPA, faces his Senate confirmation hearing.</li><li>3:00 p.m.: The House Rules Committee considers a measure to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments. </li></ul>5. Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-2021-2">Bezos will not leave the company</a> he turned into a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-richest-man-world-career-life-story-2017-7">$1.56 trillion behemoth</a>, but will take a new role as executive chairman. He'll also be able to spend more time on his other ventures such as his philanthropy, or his other two companies: the rocket maker Blue Origin and The Washington Post.<ul><li>Close confidant Andy Jassy will replace him: Unlike Bezos, Jassy is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-on-immigration-black-lives-matter-2021-2">more outspoken on political issues</a> and has written about police brutality, immigration, and LGBTQ rights. Elana Jassy, his wife, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elana-jassy-amazon-ceo-wife-donated-bernie-sanders-2016-2021-2">donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign</a> in 2016 and later to Hillary Clinton as well.</li><li>From the archives: Insider's profile on how as CEO Jassy built Amazon Web Services CEO into a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-web-services-ceo-2021-1?r=ah-sub">$40 billion business</a>.</li></ul><div type="image" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene" height="1333" width="1777" msid="80668601" hostid="261"></div>6. House Republicans punted a decision on Taylor Greene's future: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with Greene, but no decision was made on whether she would lose committee assignments for embracing conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-house-republicans-rift/2021/02/02/08348d40-6567-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html">more GOP senators</a> denounced the congresswoman with one labeling her as "nutty."<ul><li>Snow really?: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tommy-tuberville-says-he-cant-comment-marjorie-taylor-greene-weather-2021-2">Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said </a>he can't speak about Taylor Greene's past comments because "Travel in this weather it's been a little rough looking at any news or whatever." Blaming the weather is nothing new for the former football coach who once <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/495909-texas-tech-football-tommy-tuberville-blames-anemic-offense-on-ldquothe-windrdquo">pinned a loss on the wind</a>.</li></ul>7. A Capitol riot suspect wants to go vacation in Mexico: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-asks-court-permission-leave-us-for-mexico-vacation-2021-2">Federal investigators say Jenny Cudd livestreamed</a> a video after the riot where she mentions breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. She also boasted, "F--- yes, I am proud of my actions." Her lawyers pointed to her lack of a criminal record and that she had "planned and prepaid" for the work retreat.8. Putin critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alexei-navalny-putin-critic-sentenced-after-poisoning-2021-2">The 44-year-old was immediately detained </a>after he returned to Russia following a poisoning attempt that left him in a coma. The opposition leader said Putin, who he blames for the attack, will be remembered as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/navalny-says-history-will-remember-putin-as-underpants-poisoner-2021-2">nothing but an "underpants poisoner."</a>9. A lot more Americans need to get vaccinated before we return to normal: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html">told CNN that about 70% to 85%</a> of Americans need to get vaccinated, but that a greater reopening to pre-pandemic norms could also be affected by new variants. Right now, less than 2% of Americans have been vaccinated.One last thing.10. Dolly won't say "pardon me" to get the vaccine: "I don't want it to look like I'm jumping the line just because I donated money," Country music legend Dolly Parton <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dolly-parton-super-bowl-covid-19-vaccine-c21dc53f15c38339d2d3f74150eba095">told the Associated Press</a>. "I'm very funny about that." (<a href="https://www.insider.com/dolly-parton-wont-jump-the-line-for-covid-19-vaccine-2021-2">She donated $1 million</a> that help fund Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine research.)Today's trivia question: Jim Wilson correctly answered yesterday's question. His question for you all, what first lady was a former professional dancer? Email your response and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a><ul><li>Yesterday's answer: President Reagan owned Rex. As for the bonus, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/06/05/first-dogs-designer-digs/1b6370b1-7101-45f7-ae49-7ed7a9595a81/">the King Charles spaniel's posh doghouse </a>was partially assembled by a direct descendant of Rutherford B. Hayes.</li></ul>

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