{"id":490882,"date":"2026-01-04T03:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:35:12","slug":"tech-billionaires-cashed-out-16-billion-in-2025-as-stocks-soared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490882\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Jeff Bezos IAC 2019\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/> Jeff Bezos IAC 2019      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">While tech stocks were busy setting records in 2025, the executives behind those companies were equally busy turning their paper fortunes into actual cash \u2014 more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-02\/jeff-bezos-michael-dell-led-billionaire-insider-selling-in-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:$16 billion worth;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">$16 billion worth<\/a>, according to Bloomberg\u2019s analysis of insider trading data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Jeff Bezos led the way. The Amazon founder sold 25 million shares for $5.7 billion in June and July, right around the time he was getting hitched to Lauren Sanchez in Venice. Oracle\u2019s former CEO Safra Catz wasn\u2019t far behind at $2.5 billion, followed by Michael Dell at $2.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang watched his company become the world\u2019s first $5 trillion business, and sold $1 billion along the way. Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal cashed out nearly $1 billion as demand for the company\u2019s high-speed networking gear soared and her personal net worth crossed $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Most of these sales happened through pre-arranged trading plans that executives file in advance; they weren\u2019t spur-of-the-moment decisions. Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg sold $945 million through his foundation, while Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt each pocketed over $700 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The common thread was an AI-fueled rally that kept pushing tech stocks higher throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos IAC 2019 While tech stocks were busy setting records in 2025, the executives behind those companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[221322,64,4061,2010,4062,59890,221323,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-490882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-arista-networks","tag-business","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-jensen-huang","tag-lauren-sanchez","tag-michael-dell","tag-setting-records","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834737389545232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}