Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and executive chairman, sold about $737 million worth of Amazon stock last week, marking his first big sale of 2025.
Bezos sold roughly 3.3 million shares between June 27 and June 30 under a prearranged trading plan known as Rule 10b5-1, which allows insiders to sell shares at set times to avoid insider trading accusations. This sale coincided with his lavish wedding in Venice, Italy.
Despite the sale, Bezos remains Amazon’s largest individual shareholder, holding around 905 million shares valued at nearly $200 billion. Since 2002, he has sold about $44 billion worth of Amazon stock but rarely buys shares back.
Bezos uses proceeds from stock sales to fund ventures like Blue Origin, his aerospace company, which recently launched its new orbital rocket but also cut about 10% of its workforce to manage costs. Alongside business moves, Bezos has been active in philanthropy in 2025, donating nearly 930,000 Amazon shares to nonprofits supporting climate change and homelessness initiatives through his Bezos Earth Fund and Day One Fund.
