QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 5th October 2011, 1:36am)
Sadly, we'll probably never know. Bomis was, I believe, a Delaware corporation, which means its shareholder books are privileged. There's essentially no way to find out who owned how much, other than the statements of the principals, which are contradictory and untrustworthy.
Is it this kind of thing?
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/04...c-its-got-to-goWhat kind of country are you Americans running? A special state (Delaware?) with secrecy laws about company incorporation. Another special state (Florida?) where a creditor can take more than a million dollars of assets and secure them away from creditors. And Wikimedia, the organisation committed to transparency and the sum total of human knowledge, makes full use of these arrangements?
Will be an interesting theme for the book.