Jeff Bezos sells $2.5B in Amazon stock as exit approaches

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold almost $2.5 billion worth of shares in the company this week as his departure in the third quarter of the year approaches. 

The Amazon founder sold just over 739,000 shares in the company on Monday and Tuesday as part of a pre-arranged trading plan, according to securities filings. Bezos, who is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $191 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, made just under $2.5 billion on the sale and he still owns over 52.4 million shares, or about 10.5 percent, of the company.