Amazon’s chief executive Jeff Bezos has sold more than $3 billion worth of shares in his company, bringing the total this year to over $10 billion.
Bezos, the world’s richest man, sold around 1 million shares on Monday and Tuesday under a pre-arranged trading plan, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
It comes just months after Bezos offloaded more than $3 billion of Amazon shares in August and a further $4.1 billion in February.
This brings his total sell of this year to $10.2 billion, or roughly the annual GDP of Rwanda or Namibia, significantly more than the $2.8 billion he sold off last year.
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Despite this Bezos still owns roughly 53 million shares in Amazon, which went public in 1997, representing a 10 per cent.
Amazon is now worth more than $1.6 trillion after its shares skyrocketed 75 per cent throughout 2020.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos’ net worth has increased $76.1 billion to $191 billion this year, the equivalent of New Zealand’s GDP.
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