Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today

staunch · on Oct 6, 2009

Is it possible to tell if he held onto it until their IPO? Is that kind of thing declared in their filing?

danteembermage · on Oct 7, 2009

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 · on Oct 7, 2009

mybe Bezos invested trough some of the listed companies?

chollida1 · on Oct 7, 2009

Only if he is one of the larger shareholders.

Timothee · on Oct 7, 2009

One 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.

jyothi · on Oct 6, 2009

To 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 · on Oct 7, 2009

Read the New Yorker piece http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/insid...

10ren · on Oct 7, 2009

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 · on Oct 7, 2009

how much of AMZN does Bezos actually own though?