Zuckerberg can't cash out his new Meta shares without giving up voting power
Meta's new non-voting Class C stock comes with a catch: 80% of Zuckerberg's allotment is stapled to his voting shares. Here is what the Oct. 21 filing says.
Most founders who get a big stock dividend can sell it when they like. Mark Zuckerberg, under a deal Meta disclosed this week, mostly can't, at least not without giving something up. Selling most of the new shares means shrinking his own voting power at the same time.
The details are in a Form 8-K that Meta filed with the SEC on Oct. 21, 2026. According to the filing, Meta's board…
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