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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down — here's why Amazon stock isn't crashing

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Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is a once in a generation inventor that has fundamentally changed how humans buy stuff and interact with the internet. So the first thought is that Amazon’s ...

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