John Zimmer and Logan Green—president and chief executive, respectively—are preparing to take near-majority voting control of their company when it goes public this year. Currently, together, they own less than 10 per cent. (Wall Street Journal)

Talking point: The duo would be the latest tech entrepreneurs to gain exceptional influence over a startup as it goes public—giving them major sway in decisions like electing directors to selling the company. It shows the continued power that founders have over their fast-growing tech startups, following in the footsteps of major debuts like Facebook, Alphabet and Snap, whose top executives enjoy similar supervoting structures. The structure’s limitations become increasingly apparent when a company’s execs stumble, like how Facebook’s and Snap’s have over the past year. In the former’s case, 51 per cent of independent shareholders voted to oust CEO Mark Zuckerberg as chairman; it failed because Zuckerberg owned Class B shares that gave him majority voting power.