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They still have a feduciary responsibility to the minority stock holders.


Actually, IIRC, there ARE no minority shareholders with voting interest. ALL of it is locked up within the triumvirate (Page, Brin, Schmidt).

Whether this gives them any more leeway isn't clear to me, but Google is quite non-standard as far as corporate structure.


There are two classes of stock. The class that Page, Brin, and Schmidt have has ten times as much voting power.




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