3 Big Takeaways From Jeff Bezos’ Final Shareholder Letter as Amazon CEO

Earth’s most customer-centric company has a new employee-centric goal

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published his 24th and final letter to shareholders on April 15, revealing some new stats and sharing his thoughts on the platform’s reputation as an employer in the wake of the unionization drive in Alabama.

The Amazon blog gives the letter an estimated 22-minute read time, including Bezos’ original letter from 1997. In case that’s too much of a commitment, here are the highlights:

A Prime member update—and other stats

Perhaps most notably, Bezos revealed Amazon now has 200 million Prime members.

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