Yet this is the predicament that public companies know they are getting into once they go public. It's a tradeoff and the same applies to getting VC money (but

Yet this is the predicament that public companies know they are getting into once they go public. It's a tradeoff and the same applies to getting VC money (but at least you get to choose who your investors are). They've invested in YOUR company and if it's a significant amount of money, they ARE entitled to having some sort of say in things going forward because their money is on the line.