Billionaires

Bezos, Catz, Dell Cashed Out Billions as Top Insider Sellers of 2025

Billionaire founders, CEOs and directors took more than $16 billion off the table last year

Jeff Bezos waves as he gets on a taxi boat at the Aman Hotel in Venice on June 26.
Photographer: Stefano Rellandini/AFP/Getty Images

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By Biz Carson

January 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM UTC

Mega-cap tech companies led a disproportionate share of the US stock market’s gains in 2025. Their executives also accounted for an outsized share of insider selling as billionaire founders, CEOs and directors took more than $16 billion off the table.

The largest sale came from Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos, who started offloading stock at the same time as his star-studded wedding to Lauren Sanchez. His eventual sale of 25 million Amazon shares netted the world’s third-richest person $5.7 billion.