Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to sell up to 25 million shares of Amazon stock by May 2026, according to a recent 10-Q filing. At current prices, the sale could generate approximately $4.75 billion. Bezos has been reallocating capital to Blue Origin and other ventures and will see his stake fall below 9% in the company he founded in 1994. This follows his $3.4 billion stock sale in November 2024. Bezos remains Amazon’s largest individual shareholder, holding an estimated $170 billion position in the $2 trillion company. Like other tech founders, including Bill Gates, Bezos appears to be following a broader trend of divesting from the companies they built.
