In early November 2017, Founder and CEO of the retail company Amazon concluded the largest deal, selling company shares for 1 billion dollars, Finance.ua reports quoting vc.ru.
During the last six years, CEO of Amazon periodically sold its shares, usually giving about one million of securities. Now, it has about 80 mln shares of the company.
Last time, such deal was concluded on May 2017, when Bezos sold shares for USD 940.7 mln. Since that time, Amazon shares increased, and Bezos made more money than usual through the next sale of securities.
It is unknown where Bezos will direct obtained funds. He does not have public charity funds, like Bill Gates, The Verge notes. The edition considers that the fund may be allocated for financing the Washington Post or the missile producer Blue Origin, which belong to the entrepreneur.
Since late October 2017, Bezos ranks first in the list of the richest people of the world as per Bloomberg rating. His fortune is worth USD 94.6 bln, while the fortune of Bill Gates, who ranked second, is USD 88.4 bln.
