[HN Gopher] The Board of Directors Is in Charge
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The Board of Directors Is in Charge
Author : ioblomov
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-02-29 18:22 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
| EchoChamberMan wrote:
| https://archive.is/igIqF
| olliej wrote:
| I found this to be a really interesting article, both in the
| general "just because someone owns a majority of the company the
| board is not required to just do what they say because they
| represent the interests of all stockholders", but also a few
| other points - I assumed Musk owned much more of Tesla as a
| result of his stealing it from the actual founders, and even now
| we still don't know what Altman did/did not do that resulted in
| the absurd OpenAI train wreck a few weeks back.
| say_it_as_it_is wrote:
| The judge who ruled against Musk is ruling that board decisions
| are debatable when someone has majority control over its
| decisions. This suggests that ALL of the board's decisions made
| while Musk held majority control are debatable.
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