Mega-cap tech companies led a disproportionate share of the US stock market’s gains in 2025. Their executives also accounted for an outsized share of insider selling as billionaire founders, CEOs and directors took more than $16 billion off the table.
The largest sale came from Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos, who started offloading stock at the same time as his star-studded wedding to Lauren Sanchez. His eventual sale of 25 million Amazon shares netted the world’s third-richest person $5.7 billion.
The tech rally, driven by euphoria around anything linked to artificial intelligence, also lifted the fortunes of lower-profile executives like Arista Networks Inc.’s
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