According to Bloomberg's study of insider trading data, while tech stocks were busy breaking records in 2025, the leaders behind those businesses were just as busy converting their paper fortunes into actual cash more than $16 billion.
Leading the way was Jeff Bezos. In June and July, just as he was getting married to Lauren Sanchez in Venice, the founder of Amazon sold 25 million shares for $5.7 billion. Michael Dell came in second with $2.2 billion, and Safra Catz, the former CEO of Oracle, was not far behind with $2.5 billion.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia sold $1 billion while his company grew to become the first $5 trillion corporation in history. As demand for Arista Networks high-speed networking equipment surged and her personal net worth surpassed $6 billion, CEO Jayshree Ullal cashed out approximately $1 billion.
The majority of these sales were not made on the spur of the moment; rather, they were the result of prearranged trading plans that executives file beforehand.
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta sold $945 million through his foundation, while Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, and Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, each took home more than $700 million. Throughout the year, tech stocks continued to rise due to an AI-fueled boom.
