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Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today
- staunch 17y agoIs it possible to tell if he held onto it until their IPO? Is that kind of thing declared in their filing?
- chollida1 17y agoOnly if he is one of the larger shareholders.
- Timothee 17y agoOne would think he did. Google started to get some significant traction not long after when he allegedly invested, so IMO, it wouldn't have made much sense for him not to wait.
- danteembermage 17y agohttp://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504143377/d424b4.htm http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/00011931250414337... Look at page 102 or CTRL+F for PRINCIPAL AND SELLING STOCKHOLDERS No Bezos, so either he sold before or sold after. Roger Ebert sold though!
- borism 17y agomybe Bezos invested trough some of the listed companies?
- jyothi 17y agoTo 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.
- jakewolf 17y agoRead the New Yorker piece http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/inside-the-googleplex.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/insid...
- 10ren 17y agohttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAMZN+market+capitalization http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAMZN+market+ca... $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.
- pclark 17y agohow much of AMZN does Bezos actually own though?