Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos collected $671 million this week after selling 1 million shares in the e-commerce retailer, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. That's $135 million more than his proceeds in August 2015, the last time he sold a block of a million shares. The 52-year-old still owns 82 million shares in the company, a 17 percent stake valued at $54 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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