LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to step down from Microsoft's board

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Reuters

Fri, June 5, 2026 astatine 10:45 AM CDT 1 min read

June 5 (Reuters) - Reid Hoffman, billionaire co-founder of networking website LinkedIn, has ‌decided not to basal for re-election ‌to Microsoft's committee of directors astatine its 2026 ​annual shareholder meeting, the bundle elephantine said successful a filing connected Friday.

Hoffman, who has served connected the committee since 2017, ‌will enactment connected ⁠till the meeting. His determination was not a effect of ⁠any disagreement with executives connected immoderate substance relating to argumentation oregon operations, Microsoft ​said.

In 2016, ​he sold LinkedIn ​to Microsoft for $26.2 ‌billion successful what was astatine the clip the tech giant's largest-ever deal. The societal networking level has grown to implicit 1.3 cardinal members since.

Hoffman co-founded Inflection ‌AI alongside Mustafa Suleyman ​in 2022 successful an ​attempt to get ​ahead successful the rapidly increasing ‌sector.

He besides led concern ​in Airbnb's ​Series A financing circular successful 2010 and backed autonomous driving institution Aurora ​through task ‌capital steadfast Greylock Partners successful 2018.

(Reporting ​by Zaheer Kachwala successful Bengaluru; Editing ​by Sahal Muhammed)

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