>It's common to have a pool of voting shares that are issued to founders and preferred investors, and then non-voting shares that are issued to everyone else.

>It's common to have a pool of voting shares that are issued to founders and preferred investors, and then non-voting shares that are issued to everyone else. To your point about differences in classes, there may be a class with 10 votes per share, another class with 1 vote per share, and another class with 0 vote per share.