{"id":22743,"date":"2020-03-15T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22743"},"modified":"2020-03-15T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:56:09","slug":"gates-steps-down-from-microsoft-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22743","title":{"rendered":"Gates steps down from Microsoft board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from his role on the company&#8217;s board of directors to focus on philanthropy, the company announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Gates will continue on as a tech adviser for leaders at Microsoft, including CEO Satya Nadella.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire philanthropist in 2008 transitioned out of his day-to-day role at the company, and stepped down as Microsoft&#8217;s board chairman in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Gates is also stepping down from the board of the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, he announced in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leadership at the Berkshire companies and Microsoft has never been stronger, so the time is right to take this step,&#8221; Gates wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gates&#8217;s nonprofit, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on fighting extreme poverty and improving global health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22744,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}