A according to A Friday’s financial filingThe founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos In the next 13 months, Amazon is selling 25 million shares of stock.
The current price is worth about 8 4.8 billion.
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Last year, Bezos sold $ 13.5 billion shares of Amazon, which CNBC notice Was the first time he sold the company’s stock From 2021.
Bezos started Amazon in 1994 and is the company’s largest shareholder. He resigned from the post of CEO in 2021.
It is unclear why Bezos is selling now, but there are uncertainty about taxes and markets and other billionaires. Storage. In addition, the royalties of the blue founder Wedding For the fiancee, Lauren Sanchez is allegedly taking place in Italy, Italy next month, though the couple has denied the news that the “century” incident could cost more. Half a billion dollars.
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According to, Bezos is currently the world’s richest man with a total of $ 212 billion. Bloomberg’s billion leaf index. The majority of his wealth It comes from shares of Amazon.
Amazon No. 4 is the largest The company in the world According to Press Time, just $ 2 trillion with a market cap.