Amazon {hardware} VP Dave Limp set to retire after virtually 14 years

Dave Limp, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Units and Providers, has introduced his pending retirement from the corporate. Limp has been with the corporate for practically 14 years and, as his title suggests, oversaw Amazon’s transition into devoted {hardware} units like Kindle e-readers, Alexa-enabled Echo audio system and the varied Hearth-branded merchandise, amongst many others. Amazon makes a variety of stuff.

As for the reasoning behind the choice, Limp merely says that “it’s time,” noting that whereas he’s been at Amazon since 2010, he’s been doing the identical primary job at varied entities, like Apple and Palm, for 30 years. He’s not precisely retiring within the typical “cocktail on the seashore” sense, as Limp suggests in a weblog put up that he’ll seemingly proceed to work, simply not within the client electronics house. As for Amazon, he’ll keep on for the subsequent few months till naming a successor.

In fact, Amazon’s Units and Providers division skilled some severe layoffs final 12 months and it’s been reported that the division operates at a staggering annual lack of round $5 billion, in response to TechCrunch. It’s simple accountable both of those information for Limp’s departure, however many Amazon departments skilled layoffs all through the previous 12 months, not simply {hardware}, and the remainder of the business adopted go well with. The {hardware} division operates at a loss, however there are actually a variety of Amazon units in individuals’s properties, with the corporate not too long ago touting the sale of 500 million Alexa-enabled devices. Every of those cute lil Alexas are continuously asking individuals to purchase issues, so who is aware of how deeply these {hardware} gross sales funnel down into different income streams.

Nonetheless, he’s not the primary high-level government to go away the corporate underneath CEO Andy Jassy, who took over from Jeff Bezos two years in the past. Different departures have included Worldwide Client CEO Dave Clark, media and leisure chief Jeff Blackburn, longtime Amazon Internet Providers government Charlie Bell, world buyer achievement chief Alicia Boler Davis and world company affairs chief/former Obama staffer Jay Carney.