He sells $1B every year to fund Blue Origin. Source: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047650" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047650</a>
$94.6 billion net worth at present per Bloomberg.<p>I know he is basically guaranteed to be running all of these sales off a sale schedule set far in advance for obvious reasons. However, I'd probably be doubling up those $1 billion sales until/unless this market gives out.<p>Raising $6 or $10 billion - enough to fund Blue Origin for maybe a decade - by selling out of a $94 billion base, sure beats doing the same out of $26 billion (where his net worth was at just ~33 months ago).
My initial question was how did he sell $1B and not affect the share price substantially. And sure enough, the share price did drop a bit. But average trading volume is about 2 billion shares, which is about $2B. It's pretty crazy that the market has so much liquidity that $2B of AMZN changes hands every day, and that it could soak up a $1B sale and barely change the price.