Tech billionaires made more than $16bn in profit in 2025 by selling shares
As technology stocks broke records in 2025, top figures from the tech world sold more than $16 billion of their own shares, according to an analysis by Bloomberg.
The biggest seller was Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who sold 25 million shares for $5.7 billion in June and July, around the time he married Lauren Sanchez in Venice.
Other tech leaders who cashed in substantial sums included Safra Catz (former CEO of Oracle), who sold roughly $2.5 billion worth of shares, Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, who pocketed $2.2 billion, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, who sold $1 billion in stock, and Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks, who made $1 billion in profit as her personal fortune climbed above $6 billion.
Other large sums came from, among others: Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), who sold $945 million in shares via his foundation, Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks) and Baiju Bhatt (co-founder of Robinhood), who each realised more than $700 million.
Many of these sales took place through pre-arranged programmes (so-called 10b5-1 plans), meaning they were not impulsive decisions.
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