Podcast #122 | Elizabeth Pollman and Yifat Aran: Ousted, Startup Failure and Equity Compensation in the Unicorn Era.
In episode #122 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Elizabeth Pollman, a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Yifat Aran, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Haifa.
They dive into Elizabeth and Yifat’s article “Ousted” where they observe that “a substantial number of founder-CEOs have been ousted—forced or pushed to step down from the CEO role despite maintaining important indicia of control that, according to prevailing theory, empowers them to withstand such pressures.”
They also discuss other topics involving the governance of venture-backed companies, including the OpenAI governance debacle, startup failure, equity compensation in the unicorn era, private vs public markets and the Silicon Valley ecosystem generally.
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