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by vmception 1852 days ago
Keep the shares, its part of your passive investment portfolio now

Check the operating agreement or bylaws, some changes require either unanimous vote or gives all distinct voters equal weighting regardless of percentage of the company

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There are all kinds of sneaky ways to make his shares worthless.

For example, issue 100x the existing share base, and distribute them to employees (as compensation) and sell them to existing investors (except him) at way under market rate.

all because he randomly gave 6% to the COO so now he can’t veto lol

I bet the same logic is how him and the CEO wound up with 50% to begin with

I bet it was the CEO that originally suggested varying percentages which was probably more correct and is now acting on it. The reddit post said they fought/debated over that.

I actually do find it offputting when founders are equal, it means they avoided/cant deal with confrontation or they have no idea how this sector works and just tried some out of touch pleb logic.

So yeah he is playing by a totally inefficient set of rules and got screwed