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Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon’s chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos.

The Amazon founder started his private rocket company in 2000, but its busiest phase could just now be starting.

Mr. Bezos had increasingly stepped back from the day-to-day until the pandemic. He will become executive chairman, and Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon’s cloud computing division, will become chief executive.

Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.

On social media, people had some concerns about the Ring Always Home Cam. To put it mildly.

Mr. Wilke, who has been a key lieutenant to Jeff Bezos, is departing after building the e-commerce business for two decades.

It is less clear that tech executives’ strategy of evasive answers will continue to work now that lawmakers have begun doing their homework.

Bezos built Amazon into a central force in the world. This week he’ll have to answer for it.

The chief executive, who testifies before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, had taken a hands-off approach with lawmakers in Washington.

The hearing this month would be a central moment in the continuing backlash against the power of Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Apple.

Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies.

Inquiries in California and Washington are a sign that the scrutiny of the tech giant continues to intensify.

The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.