{"id":172968,"date":"2023-09-28T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/bezoss-blue-origin-names-former-amazon-executive-as-ceo-internal-email"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:22:55","slug":"bezoss-blue-origin-names-former-amazon-executive-as-ceo-internal-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/bezoss-blue-origin-names-former-amazon-executive-as-ceo-internal-email","title":{"rendered":"Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin names former Amazon executive as CEO \u2014internal email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bezoss-blue-origin-names-former-amazon-executive-as-ceo-internal-email2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sept 25 (Reuters) \u2014 The chief executive officer of Jeff Bezos\u2019s space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the end of the year to be replaced by former Amazon executive Dave Limp, who ran products such as Kindle, according to emails seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Limp, a former senior vice president at Amazon who led the company\u2019s consumer devices unit, will become Blue Origin\u2019s CEO on Dec. 4, an email from Bezos, Blue Origin\u2019s founder, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff and I have been discussing my plan for months,\u201d Smith told employees in an email sent Monday. He added he would remain with the company until Jan. 2 \u201cto ensure a smooth transition with the new CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 25 (Reuters) \u2014 The chief executive officer of Jeff Bezos\u2019s space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the end of the year to be replaced by former Amazon executive Dave Limp, who ran products such as Kindle, according to emails seen by Reuters. Limp, a former senior vice president at Amazon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}