According to news from Deep Tide TechFlow on January 4, as reported by Blockworks, SEC filings show that executives in the cryptocurrency industry performed outstandingly in the stock sales rankings of S&P 500 and other major companies. Among approximately 500 insiders, totaling $36.9 billion in sales, four executives from the crypto industry made it into the top 25:
1. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sold $636 million, ranking eighth;
2. MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor sold $410.8 million, ranking thirteenth;
3. Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam (including his trust fund and Paradigm fund) sold $203.8 million, ranking twenty-second;
4. Coinbase COO Emilie Choi sold $186.4 million, ranking twenty-third;
From the overall company sales scale, the top twelve rankings are as follows:
1. Amazon: $13.5 billion
2. Walmart: $4.84 billion
3. Palantir: $4.14 billion
4. Meta: $2.72 billion
5. NVIDIA: $2 billion
6. Salesforce: $1.27 billion
7. Coinbase: $1.25 billion
8. Oracle: $842 million
9. Apollo: $630.6 million
10. Intuit: $593.9 million
11. MicroStrategy: $567.8 million
12. Netflix: $528.3 million
Notably, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos alone accounted for one-third of the total sales at $13.4 billion. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranked second with $2.5 billion, and Palantir co-founders Alexander Karp and Peter Thiel cashed out $1.9 billion and $1.5 billion respectively through direct or trust fund methods.