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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close. Google Inc.

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. The “Big Lie” of a stolen election was perpetrated by politicians from places like Texas and Florida—the kinds of places New Yorkers were escaping to that had promised better alternatives to our local tech community. Come to Miami! Come to Austin!