Sunset clauses are winning the dual-class argument
Index providers and large allocators have found a compromise founders can accept.
Governance DeskPublished today
The absolutist positions — permanent founder control, or one share one vote at listing — produced a decade of stalemate and a lot of governance discounting.
Time-limited superior voting rights have broken it. Founders retain control through the period where their judgement is most valuable; shareholders get a defined path to ordinary governance.
The remaining disputes are about duration and about what triggers early expiry, which is a healthier argument than the one it replaced.
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