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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
So if my company becomes 1.2B one day I have to give away 1/6 of it.  If the stock prices crash the next year and it goes down to 600M do I get that 1/6 of the stock back, no?

That would also decrease the liklihood of businesses wanting to go public, because if you stay private it's easier to hide the net worth of a business, as stock prices tend to be more about speculative worth instead of actual worth of assets.  Assets on hand are typically a fair bit less.
gpt
&gt; So if my company becomes 1.2B one day I have to give away 1/6 of it. 

That question would never even come up.

How much would I need to pay you to be the on paper owner of $500 million in stock with no voting rights and no ability to transfer that stock outside a contract giving me full control?