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2. How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism
  
  Explore The New Yorker Nov 23 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ... that he issued an ultimatum: henceforth, he would work only with investors willing to give him a majority of voting control over the company’s board. Bruce Dunlevie, the investor at Benchmark who sat on WeWork’s board, ...
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3. Activist Investor May Be on Prowl for Viacom
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Aug 14 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...the Redstone family, he said. Sumner Redstone’s daughter, Shari Redstone, heads a seven-person trust that has voting control of the company. So she has veto power over any activist. ViacomCBS owns Paramount studio, CBS n...
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4. Hedge Fund Elliott Management Wants to Remove Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
  
  Explore usatoday.com Feb 29 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...e of fixing long festering problems. Unlike Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dorsey does not have voting control of the company....
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5. Adam Neumann’s Billion-Dollar Exit Package from WeWork is a Lesson in Giving Founders Too Much Control
  
  Explore The Washington Post Oct 24 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...n will become a “board observer,” that the size of the board will be expanded and that the board will receive voting control over Neumann’s shares. WeWork declined to comment. Laurie Hays, a spokeswoman for Neumann, said...
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6. A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Oct 14 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...a growing number of companies with multiple voting classes creating concern about the appropriateness of such voting control and the rights of minority or non-controlling shareholders in such companies. The nature of sha...
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7. Universal Health Services Director Resigns After Rare Shareholder Rebuke
  
  Explore philly.com May 24 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ussia, one of the nation’s largest hospital companies. At UHS, where founder Alan B. Miller has 85 percent of voting control through special share classes, outside shareholders only get to vote on two of seven UHS direct...
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8. Jeff Bezos' Divorce Won't Affect his Voting Power at Amazon, Because Mackenzie is Giving him Control
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...nsferring them to a charitable entity that had plans to do so. In either case, Bezos would no longer exercise voting control over those shares. But as a practical matter, Mackenzie may find it difficult to sell a signifi...
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9. Facebook Crumbles Around its Lonely King
  
  Explore MarketWatch Mar 24 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...berg’s decisions and instincts are correct or not, Facebook investors have to trust him. Because he still has voting control, the company’s board and its investors just have to agree or vote with their feet, since they d...
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10. Steer Clear of Lyft's IPO
  
  Explore forbes.com Mar 14 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... ratio of Class B to Class A shares will be after the IPO. It may be that the founders will not have complete voting control over the company, but at the very least they will have a disproportionate influence that will m...
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11. Google Co-Founder Larry Page Threatened to Leave if the Company Didn't Find a Way to Keep Him in Control, Newly Unsealed Court Docs Reveal
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 13 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...hose shares come with no votes, meaning that Google can issue an endless number of them without affecting the voting control held by Page, Brin, and Schmidt. The revelation about Page's threat to leave the company was fo...
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12. 3 Unanswered Questions From Lyft's Long-Awaited IPO Filing
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 3 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  .... Exactly how much say they'll have, though, is not yet clear. Lyft's IPO filing left blank the percentage of voting control the two founders will have after the IPO. It didn't explicitly say their votes will represents ...
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13. Founders Intend to Retain Control in New Tech IPOs
  
  Explore gurufocus.com Feb 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... pugnacity leads to cumbersome, unwieldy and imminent regulations in 2019? Investors who believe Zuckerberg’s voting control is immaterial for the future prospects of the company are so enthralled with Facebook’s past ra...
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14. How to Fix Unhealthy Concentration of Corporate Voting Power
  
  Explore RealClearMarkets Jan 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...of index funds, John Bogle, rightly warned that “a handful of giant institutional investors will one day hold voting control of virtually every large U.S. corporation.” In fact, the control would be exercised by a few se...
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15. A Drama CBS Can't Cancel -- the One in Its Boardroom
  
  Explore news.morningstar.com Oct 15 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...he directors who sued controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc., led by Shari Redstone, to strip it of voting control and block a merger with sister company Viacom Inc. The litigation was settled last month. Mr. C...
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16. Madison Square Garden To Spin-Off MSG Sports
  
  Explore forbes.com Oct 9 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...l and/or exchange for the common stock of the entertainment company. The Dolan family would maintain majority voting control in both the companies through their ownership of Class B shares. The proposed transaction is cu...
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