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by harryh 3818 days ago
> if you don't like the way the company is run, sell your shares.

The activist investors in question believe that changing strategies will return more capital back to them than they can get by selling their shares today.

> when you own 1-millionth or whatever of it

Starboard owns closer to 1/100th than 1/1,000,000th of Yahoo.