{"id":1009531,"date":"2026-05-23T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009531"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:50:41","slug":"from-meta-to-spacex-how-dual-class-shares-keep-founders-in-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/from-meta-to-spacex-how-dual-class-shares-keep-founders-in-control\/","title":{"rendered":"From Meta to SpaceX: how dual-class shares keep founders in control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dual-class share structure outlined in SpaceX&#8217;s IPO filing, which grants CEO Elon Musk outsized control, has revived one of Wall Street&#8217;s oldest debates &#8211; that of corporate governance. <\/p>\n<p>While such structures are hardly unusual in corporate \u200bAmerica, particularly among founder-led companies, few issues are so fiercely criticized by governance watchdogs. <\/p>\n<p>Supporters argue visionary founders should be insulated from short-term market pressures, while critics warn that concentrating power in the hands of insiders weakens accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dual-class share structure outlined in SpaceX&#8217;s IPO filing, which grants CEO Elon Musk outsized control, has revived one of Wall Street&#8217;s oldest debates &#8211; that of corporate governance. While such structures are hardly unusual in corporate \u200bAmerica, particularly among founder-led companies, few issues are so fiercely criticized by governance watchdogs. Supporters argue visionary founders should be insulated from short-term market pressures, while critics warn that concentrating power in the hands of insiders weakens accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009555,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009531\/revisions\/1009555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}