According to Blockworks, according to the internal stock sales of the top 60 companies in the S&P 500 index in 2024, including Apple, Nvidia and Wal Mart, about 500 insiders, executives, investors and other major shareholders reported that they had sold a total of $36.9 billion worth of company shares. Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos accounts for over one-third ($13.4 billion) of the total.
Four cryptocurrency executives make it into the top 25: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong ranks 8th with $636 million; Michael Saylor from MicroStrategy ranks 13th with $410.8 million; Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam ranks 22nd with a total of $203.8 million, which includes COIN stocks sold by its trust and its fund Paradigm; Following Ehrsam is Emilie Choi, Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase, who joined the company from LinkedIn in 2018 for $186.4 million. All of these sales made Coinbase rank 7th on last year's internal trading sales ranking:
Amazon: 13.5 billion US dollars
Wal Mart: $4.84 billion
Palantir: 4.14 billion US dollars
Meta: 2.72 billion US dollars
Nvidia: 2 billion US dollars
Salesforce: 1.27 billion US dollars
Coinbase: 1.25 billion US dollars
Oracle: 842 million US dollars
Apollo: 630.6 million US dollars
Intuit: 593.9 million US dollars
MicroStrategy: 567.8 million US dollars
Netflix: 528.3 million US dollars