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Unity bosses sold stock days before controversial repricing announcement

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Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it …

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This shit can't be legal. Do we have any lawyers on here?

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In the USA that would most likely fit the textbook definition of Insider Trading, which is bigly illegal
- It only looks like insider trading if you forget the definition of insider trading and only read a headline curated to ignore the important details that show small, consistent sales across time regardless of company activities.
  
  Well yeah of course I didn't read the article. I don't give much of a fuck about it. I took the headline at face value ("sold stock days before announcement") and fired off my Lemmy content into the ass crack of this butt land. You're welcome.
  
  What?
  Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
  
  CEOs have to schedule their sales many months ahead of time. Also, it was 2000 shares, which is peanuts.
  The article is focusing on this guy because people know who he is. Instead, they should be focusing on the board members who sold tens of thousands of shares right before the announcement. From Kotaku:
  Tomer Bar-Zeev, Unity’s president of growth, ...sold 37,500 shares on September 1 for roughly $1,406,250, and board director Shlomo Dovrat, who sold 68,454 shares on August 30 for around $2,576,608.
  Source
  That is way more sus.
  Also, I actually didn't know this until yesterday, but CEOs are also permitted to buy shares of their own company, so long as they clear the purchase with the SEC. But that would indicate they're optimistic about their company...
  
  It’s actually common for ceo to buy shares to show they have faith in the company.
  It’s like a sale. They have to plan it in advance to clear the insider trading rules.
  My previous company the ceo bought several million dollars of shares during the early COVID dip. It was to show he had faith in the company.
  It’s why it has to be clear to make sure it’s not manipulating the market since it sends a strong signal to everyone.
  
  CEOs have to schedule their sales many months ahead of time
  As opposed to stuff like this, where they came up with it yesterday afternoon, right?
  If they planned this change and the sale both months ago, what does it change? They scheduled the sale days before the change was answered.
  What's hard to understand here?
- I don't think it's that black and white, since he apparently has sold stock steadily through out the year (and hasn't bought any at all).
  
  I think that makes it worse. It’s obvious that he was doing that with this change in mind. Especially if he didn’t buy any over that period.
- Slap on the wrist fine at most. The rich don't have laws.
  
  He sold over $2mil, so maybe about $20k is fair.
  
  They should loose half of the shares, at a minimum.

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