(1) Boards are typically so hesitant to oust founders that it's hard to know what conclusions you can draw from those cases. Softer power shifts are very tough to look at. Successful VCs are very pro-founder. Maybe the entire system is wrong, but it's not a test I wanna run live.
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(2) Tech investors are WONDERFULLY *not* averse to risk. It's made them, along with their founders, extremely wealthy. Which means they are also subject to a 3% tax on everything they own, which is mostly... portfolios of tech companies.
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What happens to all the founder/investor stock that *only* very successful owners have to sell off? Maybe their funds buy more of it back. Maybe VC compensation shifts rapidly from stock to income, further eroding skin in the game. Maybe less successful investors snap it up.
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(3) There usually aren't dividends. Capital gains isn't a thing until stock is sold. You *could* transfer an increasing ownership stake in virtually every highly successful business to the federal government, but obviously DON'T DO THAT.
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If you zoom out a bit, what this looks like is the federal government gradually taking ownership of the country's most successful businesses under the guise of a tax that doesn't actually raise revenue. At bare minimum, this looks very, VERY bad
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FWIW, OECD compares countries' taxes on personal property (including wealth taxes + taxes on capital gains, transactions, gifts, etc.) relative to GDP. The US already taxes this pool at an unusually high rate — it just does it when the money moves https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-on-property.htm#indicator-chart …pic.twitter.com/RUSdv1zdBn
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I'm pretty convinced that breaking up innovation Schelling points is terrible for growth. You do not get Silicon Valley results without Silicon Valley. Assuming significant capital flight, I pray to anyone who might be listening that it aggregates somewhere else.
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