Amazon
.com founder
Jeff Bezos
will sell
50 million shares
in the
online retail
and
cloud services
firm over the next one year, according to a company filing on Friday.
The securities is worth $8.6 billion at the current price of $172.13 a share. The sale plan was adopted on Nov. 8 last year and it will be completed by Jan. 31
next year
, according to the company's latest annual
report
.
Amazon shares were up 8% on Friday after the
e-commerce
heavyweight reported higher-than-expected sales for the holiday quarter and its lucrative cloud business signaled early gains from AI-powered features.
Bezos founded Amazon as a bookseller in 1994. He stepped down as its chief executive and took over as executive chairman in 2021.
He is currently the world's third richest person with a net worth of $185 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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