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Andy Jassy’s Outsized Impact at Amazon

Few people have had a bigger impact in the world of modern computing than Andy Jassy, the CEO and President of Amazon since July 2021. Jassy’s ascension to the top of Amazon was 24 years in the making. He began his career at the company in 1997 — just before the dot-com boom — helping what was then a small online bookseller to expand its catalogue to CDs…

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CEO Andrew Anagnost Overcomes Early Adversity to Lead Autodesk

For Andrew Anagnost, CEO of ubiquitous design and engineering software company Autodesk, it’s been a long journey with an unlikely beginning. Anagnost grew up in Van Nuys, California, and initially dropped out of high school. But with the help of his family, he ended up reenrolling, graduating, and studying mechanical engineering at California State University, Northridge…

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PwC Veteran Joe Atkinson Sets Sights on Tomorrow’s Digital Landscape

In a time when business executives increasingly feel like they have to change jobs to advance their career, Joe Atkinson is truly unique. For nearly 30 years, Atkinson has not only been working for the same company, he’s been thriving — as evinced by the fact that he’s now considered to be one of PwC’s most influential decision makers…

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Slack CTO and the Art of Creating Accidental Empires

Originally from England, Cal Henderson is best known as the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slack, the popular messaging app company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $27.7 billion. A software engineer at heart, Henderson is now removed from daily coding duties, but he remains a vital figure in Slack’s ongoing success…

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