Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold roughly $2.03 billion of shares in his company over the past few days, according to a regulatory filing, bringing his total sales this month to over $6 billion.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Bezos sold about 12 million Amazon shares at an average price of $169.50 a share.
Bezos sold about 12 million shares, worth $2 billion, between Friday and Monday, and sold another 12 million shares the week before that.
The sales this month mark the first time Bezos has sold Amazon stock since May 2021, the year he stepped down as Amazon CEO, although he gifted about $240 million in Amazon shares last year.
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