Alphabet, Facebook and Tesla are just a few of the large-cap companies with founders at the helm. And as more companies — particularly those coming from Silicon Valley — go public, boards of founder-led companies are grappling with how to balance governance best practices with the desire to build shareholder value while working with visionary, often non-traditional, leaders.
According to S&P Global, 19 companies in the S&P 500 have founder-CEOs, with an additional 20 having founders serving as chairman but not CEO. Agenda compared governance practices at the 19 founder-CEO companies with the full S&P 500 index, using data from public company intelligence firm MyLogIQ, and learned some of these companies have more shareholder-friendly practices than predicted. Governance experts, an investor group, lawyers, directors and founders dive into the intricacies of how business strategies and boardroom decisions play out when a founder is in charge.
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