Shopify on Monday proposed 10-for-1 stock split as well as changes that would protect the voting power of CEO Tobias Lütke. Under the proposal, the e-commerce giant would issue a “founder share” to Lütke that would give him a total of 40% voting control of the company. The share expires if Lütke, who founded Shopify in 2004, leaves the company and cannot be transferred to anyone else. Both...
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The crypto industry is littered with the corpses of now-shuttered businesses. Among the survivors, at least so far, is Bakkt, a crypto company founded by New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange. But after a previously unreported second round of layoffs earlier this month, a slew of executive exits and the shuttering of its consumer app, few would be betting on Bakkt. Yet Bakkt...
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