Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement::Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night’s hugely controversial announcement it …

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’ll be my ignorance, but how are you allowed to own stock in the company you’re on the C-level of? Wouldn’t your direct control of the company, and the ability to buy and sell stock, be seen as insider trading?

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      1 year ago

      If they own shares, then they want the company to succeed. A better question is “why are they allowed to sell those shares until they quit?” And the answer to that question is that everyone with enough power to change this also enjoys the current system.