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Jeff Bezos refused to take elevators in Amazon's old office and ran up 14 flights of stairs every day without breaking a sweat, his former assistant said

Anna Cooban   

Jeff Bezos refused to take elevators in Amazon's old office and ran up 14 flights of stairs every day without breaking a sweat, his former assistant said
  • Jeff Bezos refused to take elevators and ran up 14 flights of stairs every day, a former assistant told CNBC.
  • Jeff Bezos was like a "puppy" who "never tired," Ann Hiatt, who worked for Bezos in the early 2000s, said.
  • Bezos stepped down as Amazon's CEO after 27 years on Monday, handing over to Andy Jassy.

Jeff Bezos would refuse to take elevators in Amazon's old office building, choosing instead to run up 14 flights of stairs every day to the company's floor, his former assistant told $4.

Ann Hiatt, who worked as Bezos' executive assistant from 2002 to 2005, claimed Bezos never even broke a sweat running up and down the stairs.

"He's like a puppy. He would do laps and he was never tired," Hiatt told CNBC. "That's Jeff. He couldn't be held back."

Hiatt worked with Bezos in the 16-story Pacific Medical Center tower in Seattle, a 1930s-era former military hospital that Amazon $4 to 2011 - Bezos was in his mid-30s at the start of that time, and his mid-40s at the end. In 2011, Amazon moved to a sprawling campus in $4, Seattle.

Bezos $4 after 27 years on Monday, after first announcing his departure in a $4 in February. He has handed $4, formerly chief executive of Amazon Web Services.

Hiatt $4 the New York Times that Jassy was Bezos' "brain double" in the early 2000s, and would shadow him in meetings and help challenge his thinking.

Since Bezos founded the company 1994, Amazon has grown into a$4, employed $4, and made Bezos the richest man in the world, with a $203 billion net worth, according to $4

Jassy will now have to deal with $4 and $4 over $4 Some Amazon delivery drivers $4 that they had to urinate in bottles because their grueling schedules did not allow them enough time to go to the bathroom.

Bezos said that the company needed "to do a better job" for its workers in his $4, after the $4 announced in April that a $4 by some Alabama employees to $4 had failed. $4

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