Whether your investors are friends, family, angels or VCs, nobody wants to be kept in the dark.

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But is it really good for investors to be kept in the dark?

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But shareholder decisions must be based on the facts, and too often investors are kept in the dark about the pay of senior executives.

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Or should he have kept it in the dark, where it could potentially be exploited by other hackers in secret?

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