And AMD CEO Lisa Su barely earned more than $1 billion in her ten years in office.
As of 2021, Jeff Bezos is no longer formally involved in the management of the company he founded in 1994, Amazon, but this does not prevent him from remaining the second richest person in the world according to Bloomberg with a wealth of $200 billion, according to Reuters, announced last week Amazon’s program to sell part of Bezos’s shares was implemented in the first stage, which involved the sale of 12 million securities for a total of $2 billion.
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In general, Bezos must sell 50 million shares under this program by January 31, 2025. Since Amazon is now a major player in the cloud computing market, stock prices allow the company’s founder to make good money selling them. From this point of view, the timing for their implementation was chosen well.