Founding shareholders: investors who invest initial start-up capital in the early days of the company's establishment and bear huge failure risks. In the course of the company's operation, they constantly invest a lot of money and human capital to develop products, create brands, expand markets, recruit talents and establish management systems. Some founding shareholders even devoted their whole lives to the company. Correspondingly, it is the public shareholders.

Founding shareholders and general shareholders can be divided into founding shareholders and general shareholders according to the time and conditions of acquisition. Founding shareholders are also called original shareholders. The general shareholder refers to the person who obtains the company's capital contribution or equity by means of capital contribution, inheritance, accepting gifts, etc., thus enjoying the shareholders' rights and undertaking the shareholders' obligations. (4) Controlling shareholders and non-controlling shareholders can be divided into controlling shareholders and non-controlling shareholders according to the number and influence of shareholders' shareholding. Controlling shareholders are divided into absolute controlling shareholders and relative controlling shareholders. The controlling shareholder refers to the shareholder whose capital contribution accounts for 50% of the total limited liability capital or whose voting rights are sufficient to have a significant impact on the shareholders and the resolutions of the shareholders' meeting. In addition, the shareholders of a company can also be divided into major shareholders and minor shareholders. Of course, this is a set of relative concepts.