Dual Class stocks and stock buybacks. Two ideas that were illegal, but 'somehow' became legal.

I recently learned about this due to Vince McMahon and WWE, how he was able to crawl back into the company after "retiring" last year because of the allegations, despite the board of directors not wanting him back, because at the end of the day he still had higher voting power because of his stock.

the video production quality has caught up with your story / essay quality. It's great to watch, I'm loooking forward to learning more, and to seeing where you take this channel. Good one Hari and crew, I knew there was something in you

As a founder myself, though not in Silicon Valley, thanks for the info. Need to talk to general council now :)

Zuck isnt even 40, seems like this dude has been around forever. I wonder if this whole metaverse thing is because he is bored with facebook and wants to do something more innovative..

This video not only been educational but gave more phenomenal knowledge how founders can protect themselves from predatory corporate radarse

Thanks for the breakdown!! I truly appreciate that in understanding basic economics and stocks!!!

this is a problem as old as time, if only riches weren't so promising

Wow very good to know! Thanks for informing me as always!!

I honestly had no idea about this. Thanks for making this video

i always learn something from your vids. tyvm

New subscriber here and I've watched 12 straight videos so far I just want to say thank you for the quality content. 👌

Aswath Damodaran put it best when he said that this is basically the tale of the benevolent dicator. You have no say in the company but you hope that popular person x will be rich and successfull and will let you part take in it.

Yes, I was aware of this issue, though I didn't know it was an issue. However I knew of it under the name of common and preferred stock, common stock receiving dividends right and preferred stock receiving voting rights. Thank you for a wonderful explanation.

Incredibly detailed and important video!! would love to see more videos on how the stock market works and other similar topics in the tech industry

It's not bad to want total control over your company. After all, it's yours. Giving investors voting power would be like trying to make a pure form of democracy, that would be chaos. So I don't see anything bad in founders having total power over their companies. If I worked from scratch for decades to build a conglomerate, I will definitely want to be the captain of the ship and will never give over control to people who at the slightest sway of emotions will wreck everything I worked for.

Having a lot of power without much personal risk/accountability is a recipe for bad decisions. Like gambling with someone else’s money.

The editing in this video is top-notch.

Your presentation keeps getting better

I didn't know the extent of this, excellent video

I think we need a video of how shareholders destroy companies too👍🏾

Wow, I enjoy your videos. Should do one who owns metatrader and it's role in markets

Wow didn't even know this was possible. Thanks

The good thing about this, is that they can tell the asset management companies like Blackrock, to fuck off if they try to dictate any policies. Those companies have huge power over most corporations and the world in general. The average retail investor doesn’t really care about voting and probably don’t even realise if they’re buying non voting stocks. They just want the greater fool to buy the stocks from them at a higher price someday.

Good video man

Tbf, warren buffet insisted google to go public despite then wanting to be private

2:19 The "metaverse" was Mark's answer to anti-trust laws after the whistleblower told us everything. Sacrifice half of your money to save the other half.

Great video, thank you 😊

How venture capitalists would agree with founder's on this issue??

I personally have no problem with this if it was implemented ok. Like what if, 10x voting power, = one tenth of the profits? You have to give up on your money if you want that control.

Can't believe people don't know about this. I guess I do because I went to business school. Not only can there be classes of common stock, there's also preferred stock which has better and priority dividends, and other features that make those shares sort of like a bond. But the only problem I see is people not doing their due diligence and knowing what they are buying. Caveat emptor.

3:07 That. . . .THAT surprises me. . . . . So it really has been them this entire time. . . .

Different classes of shares is common in Europe. It’s why I always buy the voting ones when they cost practically the same, like Alphabet A. Just waiting for that power play for company control to make me a millionaire :)

another great video. i learned this with an investment in a small local company, you just assume that investing money means you have a say in the strategic direction a company takes, but no. with mine i have 1 vote per share, but the founders have like thousands of votes, which means i may as well have no vote at all. glad i learned that lesson with an early investment that wont make or break me, and glad youre warning other people to watch out for this practice

When “they say the rich get richer” this is what they mean. Gaming the system to horde wealth.

Awesome! I did not know that.

Hey LA, any plans for a Gen AI video soon? Is the hype actually real? What about impact on jobs, safety, etc. Would appreciate you making a vid! Thanks!

damn the animation are so smooth

Cool video dude :]

This is so underrated

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Hello, could you make a coverage on tech companies and their control over educational sectors

Lol Elon Musk being shown as a founder CEO

Yeah they grow obsessed with what they created and become too emotionally invested in their creations!!! A great recipe of disaster!!

I have a crazy idea....how about you make a video on this company called 'duolingo' 😅 since no one has made a video yet on their business model

Ownership percentage of a company should be calculated based on votes not numbers of units when units have different voting power :P

“Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

I think the problem is availability . You can create a type of stock that doesn't need to be in the market. Lets say you want to sell 30% of your company. Here you can have only those stocks that doesn't have any voting rights. If it was like you need to sell 30% of A, 30% of B and 30% of C then there would not be any issues.

What about really good founder run companies like the Rochschilds and the makers of coca colla? What about Ferrari ane most designer brands? What about the hundreds of companies that faded into obscurity despite not being founder run rather because of the incompetence of the board? The problem isn't founders or boards. The problem is ability. One man can more brain power than a team of people and the other way around is also true. My point is that there is no correlation or relation behind who runs a company or not

Wow. There had to be a catch. With the wider public diving into stock there had to be a way they are shafted. Do no evil Google. Well well well.

Musk didn't found SHIT.

Great explanation. Wouldn’t necessarily stop me investing in one of these companies, but I’d need to take a serious look at the people with the controlling stock. Oddly enough, I’d probably avoid metaless Meta.

Thanks for making a really boring topic interesting. Nice work.

Because money!

Good video

Hey i have a request, can you make a video about agribusiness and its future? Please

"Modern founders".. HOW MANY startups had so much leverage upto IPO, such that they could issue separate classes of shares and still have investors throwing money at them? Basically only the companies you mention... The other 1,000,000+ startup founders don't have this leverage...

I would have Much Preferred to Have the Real Culprits as Subjects for Mediatic Lapidation.. But Denying So Much Reality for a Wrongful Idea of Personal Gain... Is really Threatening ..

As usual, should've read the fine print...

Also, Steve Jobs wasn't fired or forced out.

Well in case of Elon I think it’s more likely he didn’t know about different classes of stock.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Likes and comments are always good for the Algorithm.

Actually Jeff Bezos' main criticism is that he is too loyal to shareholders than common ethics😂😂

Alphabet Inc is the name behind BLACKROCK

Manchester United has this issue

For all the One Piece fans: doesn’t this sound like Imu-Sama? The celestial dragons and the one piece world are a dictatorized company.

Elitist Extortion 101 🏦

this sounds an awful lot like “stakeholder capitalism”

Thought it was common knowledge : o.

Logically Answered, I don't agree with your portrayal of dual class stocks as a morally dubious thing. You do an IPO at a stock exchange to get money and public recognition as a company. But it is also extremely threatening to your business and your employees alike because your shareholders can sue you if you don't become a sociopath hell bent on maximizing revenue at the expense of both consumers and your staff. You also risk losing control of your company as a whole if some corporate raider can persuade your shareholders that he can do a better job than you and buys them out. So it's only logical to protect yourself and your life's work in some capacity against raiders and public pressure. If people won't like what you're doing they can still sell their stock or try to manipulate public opinion so it causes a massive run on the value of your company. Not a big deal. If Zucc flops on his big metaverse dick, then Facebook as a whole will be punished for misinvestment anyway. That being said, things like stock buyback should obviously be illegal. Profits should be distributed primarily to employees and not used to reward shareholders. Their reward is the price of the stock itself and the ability to trade it.

How IP Thieves Became Tyrants.

12:29 and 12:54 don't rhyme very well

This shows how evil is whole system

people are throwing money at meme cryptocurrencies and magic gifs of monkeys, i think we're over the issue of multiple-class shares. anyway, at least a lot of expensive lawyers on both sides argued over this crap for a very long time to make these sorts of agreements, rather than a marketer hiring a celebrity to tell a bunch of lies in a superbowl commercial to sell a modern ponzi scheme.

Facebook needs a new CEO

So much for democracy...

The NYSE is not "Neye-zee" ... the real wall street people just say it as "N" "Y" "S" "E".

Family Man my butt. Jobs told his wife to abort his girl and cut her out of his will. He was a great leader but a horrible horrible human being.

Hoping my comments gets this video more views

Elon Musk did not found anything

First to like😮😮😮 WTF

Feudalism 2: Corporate boogaloo

1st

First :P

I like how you compare it to half of trumps approval rating, trying to act like Biden doesn’t have the worst approval rating hahah

FYI, NYSE is pronounced N Y S E

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I'm not really familiar with the whole stock exchange but i was wondering if a majority of shareholders want a different direction of the company, that would not necessary mean that that is best thing to do in the long run. How many shareholders really know anything about running a company anyway? Most shareholders are in it for the 💲besides, the companies you named are doing great. Great video though