Putting "power back in the hands if companies where it belongs" requires no change at all. Just don't take VC money. It's that simple. Most companies are not be

Putting "power back in the hands if companies where it belongs" requires no change at all. Just don't take VC money. It's that simple. Most companies are not best served by raising money from VC firms (and I say this as someone that has been an institutional VC for almost 20 years). But if your take on a business model that requires capital, the expectations of return of those investors are going to be commensurate with the risk. As soon as you raise outside capital whether from a VC or borrowed from your local bank, you have committed yourself to new obligations that will put constraints on how you run the business. Those constraints can be explicit ("pay us X interest every month") or implicit ("the risk associated with the startups we invest in is so great that we have to swing for the fences with every investment, so we are going to push you to a billion or bust strategy."). It is important to understand them before you take outside capital (topic for a longer post...). But if you want to stay in control, it's always best just not to take any outside capital at all.