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CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over global outage (bbc.co.uk)
7 points by AndrewDucker 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I never understood how this works. The shareholders own the company. What do they gain by suing the company? If they get paid, won't the stock value go down by the same amount?


They get the compensation in hard cash before it is given to execs and other shareholders.




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