Meta董事会希望马克·扎克伯格继续留任。公司在第三季度财报中宣布设立一类新的无投票权C类股票。公司列出了设立这一新股票类别的几个原因——其中之一是让这位首席执行官继续掌握控制权。Meta董事会设立的一个特别委员会认定，扎克伯格是带领公司走向未来的最佳人选，并强调了这位首席执行官的创造性愿景和管理能力。
Meta's board wants Mark Zuckerberg to stick around. The company announced a new category of non-voting Class C stock in its third-quarter earnings report. It listed several reasons for creating the new class — one of which is to keep the CEO in control. A Special Committee established by Meta's board determined that Zuckerberg was the best fit to lead the company into its future, and highlighted the CEO's creative vision and management abilities.
Meta表示：“C类普通股的设立将延续自公司创立以来推动公司成功的创始人主导模式。”公司在周三提交给美国证券交易委员会的新文件中披露，该委员会还得出结论，扎克伯格在靠近硅谷总部的地方继续执掌Meta“至关重要”。扎克伯格曾告诉该委员会，他正在考虑搬家，以回应加州一项拟议中的亿万富翁税。文件称，新的股票类别将为扎克伯格提供200亿美元的“即时流动性”，使他能够通过出售股票来缴纳该税，同时不失去对Meta的控制权。
"The creation of the Class C common stock will continue the founder-led model that has driven the company's success since its inception," Meta said. The committee also concluded that it was "critically important" for Zuckerberg to keep running Meta close to its Silicon Valley headquarters, the company disclosed in a new SEC filing on Wednesday. Zuckerberg had told the committee he was considering moving in response to a proposed California billionaire tax. The new stock class would give Zuckerberg $20 billion in "immediate liquidity" to cover the tax by selling stock without losing control of Meta, the filing said.
公司在财报中表示，这一股票类别还将使Meta有能力为其增长提供资金。Meta正在人工智能以及为其提供动力所需的数据中心上大举支出。公司报告第三季度资本支出为349.1亿美元。Meta的新闻稿称，此次分配实际上相当于对现有股东进行二拆一的股票拆分。Meta首席财务官苏珊·李表示，这些股票将分配给现有股东。
The stock class will also provide Meta the ability to finance its growth, the company said in its earnings report. Meta is spending big on AI and the data centers needed to power it. The company reported $34.91 billion in third-quarter capital expenditures. Meta's press release said the distribution would effectively amount to a two-for-one stock split for existing shareholders. Susan Li, Meta's chief financial officer, said that the stock will be distributed to existing shareholders.
其他科技公司也曾发行股票以获取新资本，同时不稀释首席执行官的表决权。谷歌在2012年出于类似原因进行了一次股票拆分。Semafor最先报道了这一新股票类别。长期以来，扎克伯格一直是Meta的门面人物。他在人工智能热潮中强化了自己的领导地位，进入“创业模式”，并亲自深入参与相关技术。
Other tech companies have issued stock to access new capital without diluting their CEO's voting power. Google performed a stock split in 2012 for a similar reason. Semafor was first to report the new stock class. Zuckerberg has long been the face of Meta. He's strengthened his leadership through the AI boom, going "startup mode" and getting hands-on with the tech.
公司的AI团队把办公桌设在扎克伯格座位周围。Meta的AI智能体Muse的成功，让另一位Meta高管亚历山德·王（Alexandr Wang）的知名度进一步提升。这位首席AI官已与扎克伯格一同参加播客节目，并在主题演讲中登台发言。《金融时报》上周的一篇人物报道称王是“扎克伯格的潜在接班人”。显然，董事会希望扎克伯格长期留任。
The company's AI team set up their desks around where Zuckerberg sits. The success of Muse, Meta's AI agent, has raised the profile of another Meta executive: Alexandr Wang. The chief AI officer has joined Zuckerberg for podcasts and spoken onstage at keynotes. A Financial Times profile last week touted Wang as a "potential successor to Zuckerberg." It's clear the board wants Zuckerberg there for the long haul.