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Where Supervoting Rights Go to the Extreme

Alfred Lee

Mar 22, 2016 7:02 AM PDT ·

Comment by Roy Bahat

New data on voting rights at private tech firms reveals that more companies than previously thought grant insiders extra-powerful supervoting shares carrying 30 to 100 times as many votes as ordinary stock. The more-common version of supervoting shares in private tech carry just ten times as many votes as other classes.

The most extreme example was customer feedback software maker Medallia, which has a class of stock with 10,000 times as many votes per share as other classes, according to data from research firm PitchBook, supplemented by a review of Medallia’s charter.

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