Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today

Is it possible to tell if he held onto it until their IPO? Is that kind of thing declared in their filing?

To note: "While it's not clear what Bezos did with his piece of Google, Swisher notes that his stock would be worth $1.6 billion today.

Read the New Yorker piece <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/inside-the-googleplex.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/insid...</a>

<a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAMZN+market+capitalization" rel="nofollow">http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAMZN+market+ca...</a><p>$1.6 billion sounds like a lot of money, but to put this in context, Amazon's market capitalization is $38.29 billion. That's really pretty good.