# Do retail investors have the potential to actively change a company through voting?

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**Created:** [16 June 2021 06:06 UTC](https://tribe.getbaraka.com/t/do-retail-investors-have-the-potential-to-actively-change-a-company-through-voting/416 "2021-06-16T06:06:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ymir2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a183cd/32.png) [@ymir2](https://tribe.getbaraka.com/u/ymir2)\
**Post date:** [16 June 2021 06:06 UTC](https://tribe.getbaraka.com/t/do-retail-investors-have-the-potential-to-actively-change-a-company-through-voting/416/1 "2021-06-16T06:06:55Z")

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I like to trade and invest in stocks in my free time and like most people whenever a new meme stock comes around, I like to watch from the sidelines and sometimes join in with a few shares. After seeing the aftermath/now of the huge impact millions of retail investors had on stocks like GME, AMC, etc. I started to wonder…

What if all of these retail investors were to vote together? Could they have a significant effect on a company? Personally, I will just ignore any email I get about voting at a shareholder meeting since I know my vote will be meaningless but if retail investors, or reddit for example, was to come together and vote wouldn’t there be a possibility that they could actually change a company?

I have very little knowledge on shareholder voting so maybe my random thought was meaningless but if there was a way for retail investors votes to actually make a change it would be interesting to think about the possibilities. It would probably have to be a change that is either meme enough so people can vote together or something like right to repair where all the consumers (retail investors) will be happy