Insider Stock Sales From Founders, CEOs Totaled $16B in 2025: Washington Service

Company: Amazon

Total shares sold: 25,000,000

Total value sold: $5.7 billion

The Amazon founder turned chairman turned many heads in 2025 with his high-profile wedding to media personality Lauren Sanchez, which pumped roughly $1.1 billion into Venice Italy’s local economy.

During the year, though, Bezos also offloaded 25,000,000 shares of Amazon stock, taking home $5.7 billion. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reveals that his most recent stock sale netted $3.5 billion. While the billionaire’s net worth increased by $15 billion in 2025, he still slipped one notch on the list of the world’s wealthiest people.

Company: Oracle

Total shares sold: 12,500,000

Total value sold: $2,531,343,305

Oracle enjoyed an overall strong year, despite a lackluster third-quarter earnings report that pulled the stock down in December. Former CEO Safra Katz exercised some stock options in the first half of the year, freeing up $1.8 billion.

She ended the year as the company’s top insider seller, and still holds a position of 1.1 million shares.

Company: Dell Technologies

Total shares sold: 16,253,968

Total value sold: $2.2 billion

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell sold more than sixteen million shares, totaling $2.2 billion. His most recent sale netted $1.9 billion.

Dell and his wife Susan were in the news recently, investing $6.25 billion into “Trump Accounts,” a move that inspired fellow billionaire Ray Dalio to do the same.

Company: Nvidia

Total shares sold: 6,000,000

Total value sold: $1,048,586,165

Huang offloaded a total of 6,000,000 shares of Nvidia stock in 2025, resulting in $1 billion of proceeds. His highly profitable year helped him rise four places on the world’s wealthiest list, rising from 12th place to 9th.

Company: Arista Networks

Total shares sold: 7,560,143

Total value sold: $975,839,433

Jayshree may not be as high-profile as the other tech CEOs on this list, but her insider sales of Arista Networks stock landed her in the top five. She sold 7,560,143 for proceeds of $976 million.