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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does a hostile takeover work? Why can't the company owners just not sell the company if they don't want to?
gpt
You have a lemonade stand business with your buddies, you run two stand, and 3 of your buddies each run 1 , When come the time to make the decisions, the four of you sit at 1 vote per stand. Basically, every time you vote, you need only one of your buddies to agree to make it 3 votes( your 2 votes and him) against the other two.


One day, one of your friend buy one of your buddies stands at the price he wanted, there is now you(2) a friend(1) and the other friend(2) voting.

The friend with one vote ends up being fed-up from not having much power other than  agreeing with you or agreeing with the other guy( so he can't really get his ideas to pass vote). Your other friend with 2 votes buys his stand.

Now he has 3 stands and votes. Every votes he makes wins the majority. You now have no control on the decision of your lemonade stand. Even if he didn't buy your part of the business, he is in control because he has more than 50% of the votes.

This is a hostile takeover: buying enough controlling shares(50%+1) of a company that you now control every decisions after the owners refused your offer to  buy the whole company( the name the building, and every staff and chairman).