{"id":1012776,"date":"2026-06-06T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012776"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:45:10","slug":"why-reid-hoffman-is-leaving-microsofts-board-for-an-ai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/why-reid-hoffman-is-leaving-microsofts-board-for-an-ai-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft&#8217;s board for an AI startup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Hoffman, the venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, has announced his departure from Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors later this year, citing a desire to dedicate his attention to a new artificial intelligence-focused drug-discovery venture. The announcement is a significant shift in Hoffman&#8217;s portfolio of responsibilities and marks the end of a seven-year tenure at the technology giant following Microsoft&#8217;s 2016 acquisition of the professional networking platform he created.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur prioritises founder-led drug-discovery initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Hoffman, the venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, has announced his departure from Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors later this year, citing a desire to dedicate his attention to a new artificial intelligence-focused drug-discovery venture. The announcement is a significant shift in Hoffman&#8217;s portfolio of responsibilities and marks the end of a seven-year tenure at the technology giant following Microsoft&#8217;s 2016 acquisition of the professional networking platform he created. Entrepreneur prioritises founder-led drug-discovery initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012776","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012777,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012776\/revisions\/1012777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}