[dcolkitt]

Counterpoint: Other investors have as much incentive to maximize the value of the company as I do. Besides ego, why should I care if someone is brought in who can do a better job. I still get to keep all my shares, and don’t even have to show up to work anymore.

[azinman2]

> I still get to keep all my shares

That often isn’t the case. I personally know of situations where CEOs were pushed out and recapped to effectively little.

[NotPavlovsDog]

Zuck in the Verge article discussed how much pressure there was to sell to Yahoo for 1B. For an average start-up, it might be being pushed to sell for, say, someM when you could wait and chance on 10xsomeM if you had the votes.