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Bezos Nets $670 Million With Spring Sale of Amazon Shares: Chart
Bezos Nets $670 Million With Spring Sale of Amazon Shares: Chart
08 May 2016, 10:38 PM IST 


Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos collected $671 million this week after selling 1 million shares in the e-commerce retailer, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. That’s $135 million more than his proceeds in August 2015, the last time he sold a block of a million shares. The 52-year-old still owns 82 million shares in the company, a 17 percent stake valued at $54 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tom Metcalf in San Francisco at tmetcalf7@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Robert LaFranco at rlafranco@bloomberg.net, Sophie Caronello
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