what % of the votes?

11.1%.

All of Amazon's shares have the same number of votes.

Amazon has non-voting shares.

Source: know someone who worked there. Bonuses were paid in the form of non-voting shares.

Maybe they were talking about options? You don't get voting rights by having options, you need to execute the options in order to get shares (and voting rights, in Amazons case).

Which would make him the majority shareholder. By a margin of 5% - almost double the next largest shareholder and more than the next dozen shareholders combined.

In other words: he has unilateral control of the company. Welcome to publicly traded companies. You don't need 51% to control the company.

He's a de facto controlling shareholder due to how comfortably secure his plurality is, absolutely. And he's got a significant amount of de jure control by being Amazon's President, CEO, and Chairman of its Board of Directors. It's under his control in many real senses.

But he's not a majority shareholder, since his percentage of ownership does not exceed 50%.

>he has unilateral control of the company

Bu that reasoning, if 1000 people each own 0.1% of a company, and one buys another out, then the person with 0.2% has "unilateral control of the company", implying that the other 99.8% could not stop the desires or action of the 0.2%.

This is nonsense. Any 3 of the 999 could stop the 1.

No, welcome to online opinions of companies.