• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    That’s a new one for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder

    Both public companies and private corporation have shareholders.

    But only for companies participating in the equity ownership, right? I’m not fully versed with that, so need to ask here. I don’t know how this works with Gabe and Valve. I think the important detail here is, that Valve is not publicly traded and can decide who buys shares from their company and could reject any money. I don’t think this is possible with publicly traded companies, right?

    • Mwa@thelemmy.club
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      36 minutes ago

      i think in private corporations only a very limited amount of shareholders can have shares

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        23 minutes ago

        If they are shareholders, they hold at least one share. Every one of them. There’s no limit on number of shareholders or shares held. But those shares are not publicly traded.