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Coinbase CEO sold $636 million of COIN stock last year, Michael Saylor sold $410.80 million of MicroStrategy stock

According to the internal stock sales disclosed by the top 60 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index in 2024, about 500 insiders, executives, investors, and other major shareholders collectively sold $36.90 billion worth of company stock, with Amazon Executive Chairperson Jeff Bezos accounting for more than a third of the total ($13.40 billion). Four crypto executives made it into the top 25: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at No. 8 with $636 million; MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor at No. 13 with $410.80 million; Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam at No. 22 with a total of $203.80 million, a figure that includes COIN shares sold by his trust as well as his fund Paradigm; Ehrsam was followed by Coinbase chief operating officer Emilie Choi, who joined the company from LinkedIn in 2018 for $186.40 million.