Net worth
$41.3B
Forbes Real-Time · as of Sep 24, 2026
Latest moves
No moves from Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family in the digest yet. The archive grows every morning.
Recent SEC filings
SEC filings · last 90 days
Sold 300K ANET · ~$59.7M
Sold 300K ANET · ~$60.8M
Sold 412K ANET · ~$79.4M
Sold 300K ANET · ~$61M
Sold 300K ANET · ~$54.2M
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Footprint
Companies
Arista Networks, Inc. (co-founder; largest holder)ANET · NYSE · Co-founder · 183,799,896 shares = 14.6%… · as of Apr 2026 · $205.70 ▲ 1.10%
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- Ticker
- ANET
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Role
- Co-founder; former chairman. Files Form 4s as a 10% owner (not as officer/director) following his 2024 SEC settlement
- Stake
- 183,799,896 shares = 14.6% (183,228,048 held by the Bechtolsheim Family Trust, of which he is trustee; 413,848 direct; 158,000 options)
- Stake as of
- 2026-04-02
Stakes
Alphabet/Google — early $100,000 investment in Google, cited by Forbes as a wealth source (no current share count disclosed)GOOGL · $342.36 ▲ 1.34%
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Bechtolsheim Family Trusttrust · CIK 0001605976
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- Type
- trust
- Notes
- Holds almost all of his Arista shares; he is trustee with sole voting/investment power. Filed Schedule 13G/A on Arista annually through 2024-01-31
Private deals
Arista share sales under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted 2026-02-20: 12 Form 4s covering 3,256,848 shares sold 2026-05-22…May 2026
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- In full
- Arista share sales under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted 2026-02-20: 12 Form 4s covering 3,256,848 shares sold 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-17, about $579M (our total from the Form 4 weighted-average prices). Trust held 180,543,048 shares after the 2026-09-17 sales
- Date
- 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-17
Real estate
Palo Alto, California (listed residence)residence · as of 2026-09
source ↗Legal & regulatory
SEC insider-trading settlement (Mar 2024): charged over trading Acacia Communications options before Cisco's 2019…
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- In full
- SEC insider-trading settlement (Mar 2024): charged over trading Acacia Communications options before Cisco's 2019 acquisition announcement in accounts of a relative and an associate ($415,726 profits); without admitting or denying, agreed to a five-year bar from serving as officer or director of a public company and a $923,740 civil penalty
Research gaps: Forbes still lists him as Arista chairman/CDO and gives a stake of 'nearly 17%'. That conflicts with the SEC bar and the 14.6% in the 2026 proxy; the primary filings are used here. No foundation or EIN found (ProPublica search returned nothing). Current Alphabet holding is not disclosed. No reputable reporting on real-estate deals was found. His other angel and startup investments were not researched.
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What to watch
Continuing Arista sales under the Feb 2026 10b5-1 plan (Form 144s filed roughly every two to three weeks, latest…ongoing
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- In full
- Continuing Arista sales under the Feb 2026 10b5-1 plan (Form 144s filed roughly every two to three weeks, latest 2026-09-17)
- When
- ongoing
Five-year officer/director bar from the SEC runs to about 2029, so a formal Arista board return can't come before then~2029
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