Mark Zuckerberg will testify in court later this month to defend his plan to create non-voting Facebook shares

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify on the witness stand later this month, a rare and high-profile courtroom appearance as his company defends a controversial plan to give shareholders non-voting stock.

Zuckerberg is scheduled to publicly testify in Delaware Chancery court on September 26, 2017, officially kicking off a trial that is also expected to include testimonies by Facebook board members Marc Andreessen, Erskine Bowles, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, and Peter Thiel.

The testimony would mark only the second time that the 33-year old Facebook cofounder, ranked the world’s 5th richest person by Forbes, testifies in public court.

 

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