
KEY POINTS
- The billionaire founder's plan was included in a company filing released by Amazon on Friday
- The shares would be worth about $8.6 billion at the stock's current $171.8 share price
- The report came as Amazon shares climbed by about 8% on Friday
Business magnate Jeff Bezos is selling as many as 50 million shares of Amazon.com Inc. over the next year, according to a company filing on Friday.