Filthy Rich Jeff Bezos Sells $200 Million Worth of Amazon Stock

The Bezos windfall comes at a time of "fiscal cliff"-related uncertainty with investors fleeing names as big and dominant as Apple (AAPL) because they want to save a buck or several million in capital gains taxes.

I take this as a bullish sign.

If money meant much to Bezos, he would be kicking himself right now. Dude sold that 900,000-share lot in 2010 for nearly $100 less than AMZN is worth per share today. Imagine if he waited. Two years ago, Bezos left like $81 million on the table.

Funny.

And there's not a word better than comical to describe investors who make too much out of what men and women of other worlds -- Bezos, Sandberg, Buffett -- do. We're not on their level.

Timestamp it: An AMZN bear will desperately try to make something of this. There's nothing there but a holiday quarter surprise and a stock flirting hard to hold above $250 and bump up against $300.

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--Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.

Rocco Pendola is TheStreet's Director of Social Media. Pendola's daily contributions to TheStreet frequently appear on CNBC and at various top online properties, such as Forbes.

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