Arrow Why did Oliver lose all of his money?

[Roadkill]

Yeah, it's really hard to come up with an explanation, isn't it? If she had majority voting share, could she have replaced the board?

She could have called a general shareholder's meeting, offered an alternative slate of candidates, and then presumably voted them in with her share majority. But all of that has to be announced well ahead of time, probably months. Not something power hungry CEOs can do overnight.

 

[JC00]

She could have called a general shareholder's meeting, offered an alternative slate of candidates, and then presumably voted them in with her share majority. But all of that has to be announced well ahead of time, probably months. Not something power hungry CEOs can do overnight.

But the only shareholders were Oliver and Isabel. Which makes this whole thing just illogical.

Guy owns 50% of the company, gets voted hours after he signed over leadership of the company because his sister was kidnapped. But also his stocks, the same stocks that Isabel owned were diluted and worthless and the family ends up losing everything.

They could have taken some time to come up with a more plausible scenario of how all the stuff happened.

 

[Roadkill]

It's all very mysterious. Like you mention anything she did that would dilute his shares would do the same to hers. In addition, the board of directors shown appeared to be the existing board not some board somehow packed with her stooges. What would induce them to agree to something so blatantly illegal and injurious to the company? For an example of what happens to companies whose stock becomes virtually worthless overnight, see Enron, Worldcom, about a zillion dot coms, etc.

 

[regnak]

They could have taken some time to come up with a more plausible scenario of how all the stuff happened.

That is only if you assume they cared enough to do so.

 

[JC00]

I'm not assuming, clearly they didn't care enough to do so.

 

[JC00]

Although I'm going to be fair. In the scene when Oliver signed over the CEO job he signed it over because Isabel brought up the fact that new officers to the board were nominated that day and the vote had to be done within 24 hours. So it's plausible that those officers were in Isabel's back pocket.

Still doesn't change the the illogical plot of the company becoming Isabel's and Oliver losing everything when he still owned 50% of it.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Like you mention anything she did that would dilute his shares would do the same to hers.

I don't think she had any objection to that. After all, the goal was to destroy Oliver Queen, not more.

 

[sezibuf]

Thanks my man for this I needed it too.