Gerber's move:
sell the stock
agitate · litigate
Why an outside holder cannot dislodge Mark Zuckerberg
The 2012 IPO created Class A at one vote per share and Class B at ten; Zuckerberg owns 99.7% of Class B, turning about 13% economic ownership into around 61% of voting power; with no sunset the bloc decides every shareholder ballot, and an outside holder's two routes both dead-end at the 10:1 boundary.
1 · the 2012 IPO dual-class
Class A
1 vote / share
Class B
10 votes / share
×10
10:1 super-vote
Zuckerberg's Class B bloc
99.7% of all Class B shares
no sunset — permanent
economics
~13%
voting power
~61%
decides every ballot
every shareholder ballot
board elections
executive pay
proposals
passes or fails at his pleasure
5 · the holder's two routes
outside holder
Ross Gerber
sell the stock
price pressure only
agitate · litigate
publicity, not votes
6 · the 10:1 boundary
the 10:1 classification boundary makes any vote of no confidence structurally impossible