Investors ask Bill Gates to leave

Microsoft needs a new director, but many analysts say that there is little hope that the company will choose the true leader that it needs, but rather it will be headed by one who avoids risks and maintains the same path. Investors say the problem may be in Bill Gates himself. Three of the twenty leading Microsoft investors asked Gates to give up the post of chairman of the board of directors, Reuters writes .







Obviously, there are several reasons for this. First, investors say, Gates’s very presence forces the company to abandon new areas of development, innovation, and limits the power of the new CEO, whoever he is. In addition, there are fears that Gates’s charity takes him too much time, so that he cannot effectively manage the board of directors.

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Nothing is known about the position of other investors. These three collectively own about 5% of the shares. Gates himself, for example, owns 4.5% of the company. Microsoft still remains one of the most expensive technology companies in the world, its net profit last year was $ 22 billion. However, the company's shares have not been growing for about a decade, and the company's products are desperately resisting the invasion of competitors in the post-PC era, for which Microsoft was not very ready.