MADRID, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, got rid of some 24 million shares of the e-commerce giant between February 7 and 12 in exchange for an aggregate consideration of around $4,118 million (€3,832 million), according to reports. records of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This is the first sale of Amazon shares made by Jeff Bezos since May 2021, a month before handing over the reins of the multinational to Andy Jassy, ??when the founder of the company got rid of a package of 737,332 titles, whose value aggregate then exceeded 2.4 billion dollars.
Last week, Bezos had informed the SEC of his intention to get rid of up to 50 million Amazon shares, with an estimated value of about 8,475 million dollars (7,887 million euros), which means that there would still be something to sell. more than half of the planned package of actions.
After the last transaction confirmed to the SEC, Jeff Bezos would control more than 964 million Amazon shares, equivalent to approximately 9% of the company and whose estimated value at the current price is around $160 billion (€149 billion).
According to ‘Forbes’ magazine, the founder of Amazon occupies third place among the largest fortunes in the world, with an estimated net worth of 190.2 billion dollars (177.006 million euros).
