Jeff Bezos walks through a one-way door, opening a new age for Amazon

Bloomberg:

The walls of his highly compartmentalized empire have been crumbling for some time. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be Jeff Bezos (at least by Bezos’s standards). He presides over a collection of properties that spans not only Amazon but The Washington Post, several philanthropies and a space company, Blue Origin LLC, that lags far behind its chief rival, Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

This is a great take on Bezos stepping down and the freedom that offers Amazon without the political weight of The Washington Post and the fractured attention pull of Blue Origin.