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Bill Gates is about to spend less time at Microsoft, but it doesn't mean he'll stop helping CEO Satya Nadella navigate acquisitions like LinkedIn and advising on tech issues?

he's stepping down altogether from Microsoft's board of directors to focus on his philanthropic work

at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That means he'll be spending a lot less time at Microsoft, but in his announcement, Gates said he will continue advising Nadella on Microsoft's future. "With respect to Microsoft, stepping down from the board in no way means stepping away from the company," Gates wrote. "Microsoft will always be an important part of my life's work and I will continue to be engaged with Satya and the technical leadership to help shape the vision and achieve the company's ambitious goals."

Although Gates stopped working for Microsoft full-time in 2008, his influence on the company has been crucial. Nadella has talked about the more tacit ways Gates inspired him, but there are also concrete example of Gates intervening in ways that shaped the direction of the company. Back in 2016, former Microsoft executive Qi Lu – who ran research and development for Bing, Office, and Skype – reportedly wanted to the company to make a big, $8 billion purchase of chat app Slack. Gates reportedly jumped in and suggested the money could be better used

 

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