Meta CTO and COO Sell Millions in Company Shares, Still Hold Tens of Millions

Meta Platforms, Inc. CTO Andrew Bosworth and COO Javier Olivan recently sold shares under pre-established 10b5-1 trading plans. On February 18, Bosworth disposed of 8,089 common shares on the open market, netting approximately $5.1 million (≈7.3 billion KRW). After the sale, he still holds about $43.7 million (≈630 billion KRW) in equity across personal and trust accounts. Olivan sold roughly 500 shares on both February 2 and February 9, realizing around $300,000 (≈500 million KRW) per transaction, while retaining the vast majority of his direct and indirect holdings.

Meanwhile, Meta has announced plans to invest $115 billion to $135 billion (up to ≈195 trillion KRW) in capital expenditures by 2026 to expand its AI infrastructure. The company also unveiled a multi-year strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deploy large-scale GPUs and CPUs in its data centers. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is reported to have acquired about $2 billion (≈3 trillion KRW) of Meta shares, making it one of the fund’s top holdings.

Meta, the global social-media powerhouse behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is increasingly shifting its metaverse strategy toward AI and wearable devices. Bosworth, who leads Meta’s technology and hardware vision as CTO, and Olivan, responsible for global service operations as COO, executed these transactions under the company’s disclosed, pre-arranged trading plans.