Google’s founders controlled corporate decisions through super-voting shares.

Evidence

When shareholders objected to the system at the company’s annual general meeting by casting 180 million votes for an equal-voting-rights resolution, they were swamped by the 551 million votes owned by the founders. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1897

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to legal-separation claims in surveillance capitalism: control concentrated apart from ownership resembles the split of knowledge and power. — connects to: Tech founders control their firms through extreme dual-class voting structures. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1900; Google’s dual-class share structure insulated founders from market and investor pressures — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 322

Broader Connections

• Google’s dual-class share structure insulated founders from market and investor pressures #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 322
• Tech founders control their firms through extreme dual-class voting structures. #expands (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1900