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2. After A Tumultuous Year, Google Workers And Investors Plan To Press For Change At Shareholders Meeting
  
  Explore forbes.com Jun 19 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...emely unlikely to pass thanks to the company’s multi-class share structure that gives Google’s cofounders 51% voting power. NorthStar Asset Management has filed a proposal for the last four years that recommends switchin...
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3. Facebook must do some 'deep soul searching' about Mark Zuckerberg's power after a huge shareholder revolt
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today Jun 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...vor of an almost identical proposal in 2017), but ultimately defeated because of Zuckerberg's stranglehold on voting power. There was also lower than usual support for lead independent director Susan Desmond-Hellmann, ac...
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4. Facebook Shareholder Revolt Gets Bloody: Powerless Investors Vote Overwhelmingly to Oust Mark Zuckerberg as Chairman
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...him down In fact, Zuckerberg happens to own more than 75% of class B stock, meaning he has roughly 60% of the voting power at Facebook. He and colleagues voted down the independent chairman proposal and the dual-class sh...
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5. Facebook Keeps Three-Yearly 'Say on Pay' Vote, Amid Outside Investor Doubts
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...8% of voting rights at Facebook through their ownership of a special class of shares which carry 10 times the voting power of standard shares. The voting imbalance means Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook in his Harvard...
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6. Do the Index Giants Have Too Much Control Over Corporate Voting?
  
  Explore Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute May 29 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ath of public companies. Their voting power, then, was estimated to be significant. In fact, a quarter of all voting power is thought to be in the hands of the Big Three. In the next 20 years, the voting power is extrapo...
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7. Vanguard to Surrender Some of its Corporate Voting Power to External Fund Managers
  
  Explore CNBC.com Apr 26 2019 BoardNews
  
  Vanguard Group, the globes second-largest asset manager, announced Thursday plans to allocate a fraction of its vast voting powers on corporate boards to outside fund supervisors that control more than $470 billion of its holdings...
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8. Facebook Investors are Making Another Dramatic Bid to Oust Mark Zuckerberg and Abolish the Firm’s Share Structure
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 13 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...rg's voting power. This is because of Facebook's dual-class share structure. Class B shares have 10 times the voting power of class A shares, and it just so happens that Zuckerberg owns more than 75% of class B stock. It...
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9. Jeff Bezos' Divorce Won't Affect his Voting Power at Amazon, Because Mackenzie is Giving him Control
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...l give Bezos voting power over those shares. Barring Bezos' incapacitation or death, Mackenzie can't get that voting power back unless he consents. He also will retain voting authority over those shares if she transfers ...
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10. Lyft’s Founders Are Set to Make More than $1 Billion in the Company’s IPO
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 29 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... two founders aren't the only ones to strike it rich with Lyft's massive IPO but they will keep a majority of voting power over corporate issues thanks to the stock's dual class structure. The controversial division betw...
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11. Pinterest’s IPO Structure Could Give CEO Ben Silbermann the Right to Control the Company from Beyond the Grave
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 24 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...stock has 20 votes to every one vote held by the Class A stock. Pinterest didn't disclose what percent of the voting power will be held by Class B shareholders. The way Pinterest is set up, Class B shareholders will lose...
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12. Big Bristol-Myers Shareholder Opposes Celgene Deal
  
  Explore thestar.com Feb 28 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ol’s largest shareholder, according to Refinitiv, the firm disclosed in a filing Wednesday that it only holds voting power for about 28 million of its 126 million shares, meaning its opposition could be less of a factor ...
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13. This Investor Wants to Put an Employee on Google’s Board
  
  Explore The Washington Post Feb 20 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...vote. (As of its last proxy statement, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held 51 percent of total voting power, and former executive chairman Eric Schmidt held another 5.6 percent.) Current equity compensatio...
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14. Corporate Culture Problems At Snap Inc - What Should Their Board Do About It?
  
  Explore forbes.com Feb 19 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...the stock over time. Spiegel's co-founder, Bobby Murphy, is the second-largest shareholder, with 47.4 percent voting power. The two essentially control all shares, and if one of them dies or becomes incapacitated, the ot...
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15. How to Fix Unhealthy Concentration of Corporate Voting Power
  
  Explore RealClearMarkets Jan 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...owed to vote such shares without instructions, to suit themselves. It’s not the surface “ownership,” it’s the voting power that must be addressed. They don’t need to have anti-trust laws applied, just to have their votin...
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16. ISS Releases New U.S. Executive Compensation Policies and Equity Plan FAQs for 2019
  
  Explore National Law Review Jan 11 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...500 only) or 25% (for the Russell 3000 only). The override factor measures share capital dilution rather than voting power dilution, and is calculated as (A + B + C) ÷ CSO, where A = # new shares requested, B = # shares ...
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