When you are offered options, inquire as to whether the shares you will obtain by exercising will enable you to vote for directors. The GOOG shares held by Lar

When you are offered options, inquire as to whether the shares you will obtain by exercising will enable you to vote for directors. The GOOG shares held by Larry Page and Sergey Brin give them control that its publicly traded shares do not. I don't know either way about the shares obtain through employee option exercises. Stocks are authorized in a sequence of "series": Series A, Series B and so on. What series are your options from? The corporate bylaws sometimes grant different rights to the shareholders from different series.