In a statement filed by Jeff Bezos with federal regulators shows his sale of nearly 12 million shares of Amazon stock worth more than $2 billion.
The Amazon executive chairman notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the sale of 11,997,698 shares of Amazon stock on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8 , which were valued more than $2.04 billion.
In a separate SEC filing, Jeff Bezos has proposed sale of 50 million Amazon shares around Feb. 7, valued around $8.4 billion.
As per Bloomberg Billionaires Index the Mr. Jeff Bezos’s total net worth (as of February 11) is $200B just behind World’s richest person Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk whose net worth is $209B.