Comment by dangrossman

Comment by dangrossman 2 days ago

13 replies

From Reddit discussions, if they can be trusted, there is nobody who can remove Matt from any position. It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares.

rs186 2 days ago

I am confused -- so if investors don't like the CEO, there is nothing they can do? Other than maybe taking their part of the money out?

  • wavemode a day ago

    Even "taking their part of the money out" is not guaranteed. Again, it's a privately traded company, so there's no open market. You have to find someone willing to buy your shares from you and make a deal with them.

mritchie712 2 days ago

he'd already be out if it was simple to force him out

  • lenerdenator 2 days ago

    Let this be a lesson to anyone investing in a startup: don't give any cash unless there's real corporate governance.

    • em-bee 2 days ago

      but the opposite is true too: don't take money from investors unless they let you keep control of your company. for every case like this there are probably a dozen cases where investors took control of a company and ruined it for the sake of making money.

      • pclmulqdq a day ago

        How did they "ruin" a company if that company made money?

    • toomuchtodo 2 days ago

      Same with trading your time for stock options (that you hope are eventually negotiable shares); trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets.

      • SJC_Hacker 2 days ago

        Dilution is a real problem. If they want you to act like a Founder, you should have protected equity like one.