{"id":1012619,"date":"2026-06-06T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012619"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:15:45","slug":"linkedin-cofounder-reid-hoffman-to-step-down-from-microsofts-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/linkedin-cofounder-reid-hoffman-to-step-down-from-microsofts-board\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman to step down from Microsoft&#8217;s board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Hoffman, billionaire co-founder of networking website LinkedIn, has decided not to stand for re-election to Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors at its 2026 annual shareholder \u200cmeeting, the \u2060software \u2060giant said in a filing on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Hoffman, \u200bwho has served on the board since \u200b2017, will stay on till the meeting. His decision was not a \u200bresult of any \u2060disagreement with \u200cexecutives on any matter \u200brelating \u200bto policy or operations, Microsoft \u2060said. <\/p>\n<p>In 2016, he sold LinkedIn to \u200bMicrosoft for $26.2 billion in what \u200bwas at the time the tech giant&#8217;s largest-ever deal. The social networking platform has grown to over 1.3 billion members since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Hoffman, billionaire co-founder of networking website LinkedIn, has decided not to stand for re-election to Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors at its 2026 annual shareholder \u200cmeeting, the \u2060software \u2060giant said in a filing on Friday. Hoffman, \u200bwho has served on the board since \u200b2017, will stay on till the meeting. His decision was not a \u200bresult of any \u2060disagreement with \u200cexecutives on any matter \u200brelating \u200bto policy or operations, Microsoft \u2060said. In 2016, he sold LinkedIn to \u200bMicrosoft for $26.2 billion in what \u200bwas at the time the tech giant&#8217;s largest-ever deal. The social networking platform has grown to over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012644,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012619\/revisions\/1012644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}