Nvidia board members cash in on stock in the $2 trillion AI company after a blockbuster 27 percent surge

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Board members at Nvidia—the AI ​​company that no one can stop talking about at the forefront of tech evolution—are reaping the benefits of a surge in the company’s stock. Shares of the company traded at $887 today, up 26.5% this month alone.

Four insiders sold holdings in multiple transactions over the past four weeks, SEC filings show. He joins a growing list of executives who have unloaded billions in the company’s stock in recent months. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made his first stock sale last month for $150 million, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold $8.5 billion in Amazon stock. MetaPlatforms founder Mark Zuckerberg sold $1.2 billion and private equity founder Leon Black made his first sale of $172.8 million.

On the Nvidia board, Tench Coxe, a former managing director at venture capital investment firm Sutter Hill Ventures, sold $170 million in company stock in a total of three transactions. As a director, Coxe earns $255,000 worth of restricted stock and $85,000 in cash annually. Coxe has been an Nvidia board member since 1993.

Similarly, board member Mark Stevens offloaded 12,000 shares of the stock worth $10.2 million this week after offloading 15,000 shares last month, worth about $12 million. Stevens is a managing partner at private family office investment firm S-Cubed Capital and was previously a partner at VC investment firm Sequoia Capital. Stevens was a director from 1993 to 2006 and rejoined the board in 2008. Stevens previously sold 36,000 shares in January when the stock was worth about $19.7 million at about $546.

Another board member, Mark Perry, sold 15,000 shares for about $11.9 million on Feb. 23, just two days after the company reported earnings on Feb. 21. Perry has been a director for nearly a decade and is a consultant to nonprofit and former CEOs. At the biopharmaceutical company AeroVance.

Harvey Jones, a longtime director who joined the board in 2003, sold a portion of his stake in the company for about $53 million. Jones is the managing partner of Square Wave Ventures.

Despite their sale, Coxe, Jones, Stevens and Perry still hold significant stakes in the AI ​​chip developer. Cox owns about 4.1 million shares, Jones about a million shares, Perry about 152,000 and Stevens about 4.4 million shares. CEO Jensen Huang owns about 86 million shares in the company, a 3.5 percent stake.

Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Andrew Jessee sold 50,000 shares in Amazon this week for about $9 million. It was sold as part of a pre-planned business plan.

This story was originally published on Fortune.com.

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