{"id":669475,"date":"2010-02-19T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-unloads-2-million-shares-worth-235-million-2010-2"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:46:30","slug":"sec-stalker-jeff-bezos-unloads-2-million-amazon-shares-worth-235-million-amzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669475","title":{"rendered":"SEC STALKER: Jeff Bezos Unloads 2 Million Amazon Shares Worth $235 Million (AMZN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/747a6c798cd9894915f6a300-312-233\/jeffbezos-screaming-tbi.jpg?resize=312%2C233\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jeffbezos screaming tbi\" width=\"312\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos unloaded 2.3 million shares of Amazon stock between February 16 and 17, worth a total of $235 million, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/secfilings.nasdaq.com\/filingFrameset.asp?FileName=0001359804-10-000009.txt&amp;FilePath=%5c2010%5c02%5c18%5c&amp;CoName=AMAZON+COM+INC&amp;FormType=4&amp;RcvdDate=2%2F18%2F2010&amp;pdf=\">an SEC Filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no explanation in the filing about why Jeff decided to sell his shares, nor is there on Amazon&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Engleman at TechFlash speculates that Jeff has been more interested in his space project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/\">Blue Origin<\/a>, so that might be where the money is going.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff still owns   \t92,158,027 shares of the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-unloads-2-million-shares-worth-235-million-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-to-direct-6-billion-toward-private-space-flight-2010-1\">Obama Wants Bezos, Branson And Musk To Put People In Space \u2013 Not NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-the-nooks-book-lending-feature-is-a-joke-2009-12\">Jeff Bezos: The Nook&#8217;s Book Lending Feature Is A Joke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-is-about-to-lose-its-death-grip-on-e-books-but-its-not-a-big-deal-2010-2\">9 Charts That Show Why Amazon Investors Have Nothing To Worry About<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/9dDTElxxThA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos unloaded 2.3 million shares of Amazon stock between February 16 and 17, worth a total of $235 million, according to an SEC Filing. There&#8217;s no explanation in the filing about why Jeff decided to sell his shares, nor is there on Amazon&#8217;s site. Eric Engleman at TechFlash speculates that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770936,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669475\/revisions\/770936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}