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When someone else owns a majority of voting shares of the company they get to make demands of how it's run.

Unfortunately for regular investors in Facebook, their shares are each worth 1/10th of the votes of Zuckerberg's special Class B shares, and if they wanted to have a say in anything they probably should've invested in a company where the CEO/founder doesn't hold a huge pile of special voting shares.



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