There is room for confusion. From Wikipedia "Unanimity": "Unanimity may be assumed explicitly after a unanimous vote or implicitly by a lack of objections." "

There is room for confusion. From Wikipedia "Unanimity": "Unanimity may be assumed explicitly after a unanimous vote or implicitly by a lack of objections." "Practice varies as to whether a vote can be considered unanimous if some voter abstains." Unanimous consent as stated by Theranos means (a) the majority / necessary number of shareholders gave a response and (b) none of those responses were of dissent. The quoted shareholder may still be surprised that the shareholders who did vote were a large enough group and in unanimous agreement; it's not necessarily wrong of the author to include this. Edit: The wording of the quote however does come across as though they misunderstood the consent part however.