You can with lawyers. Just saw it happen first hand. It is amazing what cap table engineering can be done with a few 100K in lawyer fees and a devious board member or two.
The company, any reasonably wealthy executives, and the investors all have lawyers. The rank and file largely do not. That's the only reason this works. It would never fly if challenged, but it never gets challenged.
True. But even experienced execs and investors know that lawsuits require time, arbitration, and often don’t go how you would expect. All the while eating up money that should go to shareholders.
I’m agreeing that employees get screwed more often than not, I’m also saying smaller investors get screwed more often than not.
