Subtract the shares he donated, and his stake stood at 990,476,371 shares, worth $122 billion as of Friday's close. For example, Musk initially offered to acquire Twitter for $42 billion last year before sealing the deal at $44 billion.īezos paid $114.77 for his Amazon share. The chief of Tesla and SpaceX has made plenty of playful references to the number "42" - a reference to Weed Day on April 20, and the answer to the "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - and "69" in recent years. The bizarre single-share purchase and the numbers implied by the reporting time and the stock donation - 4:20 and 69 - have fueled speculation that Bezos may have been mimicking his rival Musk. He also disclosed a gift of more than 69,000 shares to a nonprofit in the same filing. He may have been channeling Elon Musk and trolling Wall Street.Īmazon's billionaire founder and executive chair reported the May 25 trade to the Securities and Exchange Commission at 4:20 p.m. Jeff Bezos unexpectedly bought a single Amazon share in late May, marking his first known purchase of the company's stock in more than two decades.
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