Sorry to hijack your actual point, but I think the financial investment model of company control does leave something to be desired. In particular, people inves

Sorry to hijack your actual point, but I think the financial investment model of company control does leave something to be desired. In particular, people invest time as well as money into their economic ventures, but this is rarely reflected in the level of control they have. The common retort is that you get paid for your time - but then a lot of people get paid for their money too, often quite handsomely (that's the whole point of investment). What would be interesting (albeit awkward, perhaps to the point of being unworkable) is if an individual's level of control was equal to the weighted sum of the time and money (or money equivalent) that they had put in. This would mean that early investors would start with a large controlling stake, but it would diminish over time as the effects of the time people spent working at the company started to kick in. I await the rubbishing of my ideas with moderately bated breath! ;-)