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Founder of Amazon for three days earned $ 531 million on the sale of shares of his own company

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos sold a million shares of his own company. This happened in early August. At about the same time, Amazon published its regular quarterly report. For the given period the peak of annual growth of shares of the company fell.



Bezos sold securities at prices ranging from $ 529 to $ 539 per share, reports Bloomberg.



The head of Amazon conducts such a sale annually . Moreover, this year he earned a record amount of half a billion US dollars due to the growth of shares. Since mid-year, they have risen in price by 73%.

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Now about 83 million shares of Amazon are owned by Bezos. Its share in the company is 18%.

Today, Megamind reported that Jeff Bezos ranked third in the ranking of the richest IT entrepreneurs according to Forbes. 90% of its capital comes from Amazon shares. Due to the sharp increase in the company's market value, Bezos’s fortune has grown by $ 13 billion since the beginning of the year and reached $ 47.8 billion.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/293378/



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