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Shareholders At Microsoft Corp Push For Reid Hoffman's Ouster Over Epstein Ties · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles.
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  One thing that we know is that all of the
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  so called elite, basically we're in bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  At the very least, they were breaking bread with them.
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  And that goes for Reid Hoffman as well. Now, Reid
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  Hoffman is one of these big shots in Silicon Valley,
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  another one of these gigantic bundlers to politicians, but at
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  the same time was somebody that was very close to
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  Jeffrey Epstein and who even went to the island in
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  twenty fifteen. Now, there are no allegations that have been
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  made public of Reid Hoffman taking part in the abuse himself,
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  but the fact that he was hanging out with Epstein,
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  the fact that he was on the island with Epstein,
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  and the fact that he was doing all these other
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  activities with Epstein should really raise some eyebrows. And thankfully
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  for the shareholders at Microsoft, it started to raise those
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  eyebrows a bit. And now you have people who are
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  demanding that Reid Hoffman get booted off the board of directors.
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  So let's dive into this article and let's see what
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  news Direct has for us. Headline shareholder urges Microsoft to
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  boot Jeffrey Epstein pal from board of directors. The author
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  of this article is News direct staff. In a letter
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  to the lead independent director for Microsoft Corporation, National Legal
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  and Policy Center has asked for the removal of billionaire
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  Reid Hoffman from the company's board of directors due to
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  his hyperpartisan political activities and his connections to the late
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  convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whose private island Hoffman visited in
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  twenty fourteen. This should be a problem for people that
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  take money from Reid Hoffman, but it won't be, you
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  know why, because the legacy media refuses to dig in
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  and really a report on it. This guy was bundling
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  also sorts of money to all sorts of politicians. How
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  much money did this guy give to Joe Biden? How
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  much money did he give to insert politician here? But
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  Jeffrey Epstein's funk isn't going to be on this dude.
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  Why not because his politics might align with yours. And
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  what's so disgusting about all of that, honestly, is that
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  during the last administration, you had a whole bunch of
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  people that were demanding accountability from a whole lot of
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  other people. Now that the roles are reversed and their
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  team is in office, that accountability is right out the window. Oh,
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  there's no more accountability. It's all about holding on to power.
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  It's all about making sure our guy gets elected. Meanwhile,
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  Jeffrey Epstein's survivors continue to get stepped on. How do
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  you think it feels to wake up, look at the
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  news and see a guy like Reid Hoffman who was
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  paling around with Epstein, who the survivors saw on the island,
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  and now they hear that he's a gigantic bundler for
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  insert politician here, that he's donating a bunch of money
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  to insert cause here. I'm sure that makes them feel great.
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  And maybe as a nightcap they can watch Prince Andrew
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  being welcomed back to the royal family. NLPC owns stock
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  and Microsoft, and is also sponsoring a shareholder proposal at
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  this year's annual meeting, which will be held on December seventh,
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  twenty twenty three. LinkedIn, which was co founded by Hoffman,
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  was acquired by Microsoft in December of twenty sixteen. He
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  joined Microsoft's board in March of twenty seventeen. So yeah,
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  this guy should go. There's no doubt that Riied Hoffman
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  should be forced off the board. They're not gonna do it, though.
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  They don't have that kind of courage, and there's not
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  that kind of cry from the media. Imagine the outcry
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  if alex Acosta joined one of these boards. It would
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  be insane, right, But naw, Reid Hoffman, no big deal.
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  Who cares that he was in bed with Epstein? Who
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  cares that he gave Epstein a bunch of money? Not
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  like he's ever going to be held accountable. I mean,
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  look at Bill Clinton, look at Hillary Clinton. Have either
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  of them been held accountable for their time with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  The answer is no, And the answer is they're never
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  going to be held accountable. As nlpc's Paul Chesser wrote
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  in his letter to the company's top independent director, Sandra Peterson,
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  Hoffman has shown poor discernment in his associations, poor judgment
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  in his political and social actions, and utter disregard for
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  Microsoft's reputation and shareholder value. And if you recall, we
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  saw a similar thing happen over at Barclay's. Edward Brampson
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  went on an absolute war path to get rid of
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  Jess Staley. He eventually was successful as well. So if
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  I was Reid Hoffman, I wouldn't be too confident that
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  this is a nothing burger and it's all just gonna
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  blow over, Because when somebody who holds a lot of
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  shares of a company starts wild and out, it causes
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  some issues, and you better believe the people in the
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  boardroom start paying attention. Reid Hoffman's wealth and arrogance have
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  clearly gone to his head, and he appears to think
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  he doesn't have to be account to anyone, said Chesser,
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  who is director of nlpc's Corporate Integrity Project CIP. Whether
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  it's visiting Pedophile Island with Jeffrey Epstein or calling the
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  likely twenty twenty four Republican presidential nominee the disease President,
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  or simply advising aspiring entrepreneurs to ignore your customers, Hoffmann
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  obviously would rather satiate his sensual impulses than properly oversee
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  the fiduciary responsibilities of a major technology company, said Luke Purlott,
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  Associate director and chief researcher for the CIP. Some pretty
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  heavily charged stuff, and look, if you have a bunch
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  of money invested somewhere. Do you want somebody out here
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  playing games, running around like an activist. If I wanted
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  to join a group of activist investors, that's what I
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  would do. When you're joining Microsoft, that's not what you're
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  looking for. You're looking for a solid company that's going
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  to handle their business and you're going to get a
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  ton of return on your investment. Save all the other
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  stuff for somebody else. In the heavily footnoted letter to Microsoft,
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  NLPC pointed out three major reasons that make Hoffman unsuitable
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  for the board. His close association with Epstein, his unrestrained
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  hyperpartisan political urges, and his hypocritical views regarding civic participation
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  and his own companies censorship practices. And I'm sure that
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  there's some political animus here with NLPC, but the fact
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  remains at Jeffrey Epstein's buddy, Reid Hoffman shouldn't be on
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  the Microsoft board. And I don't care what his political
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  affiliations are. Save that for all the other people that
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  want to tear this country apart at its very seams,
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  I won't take part in it. And that's because I
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  know the whole entire thing is a big ass hustle.
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  The whole entire thing is meant to divert your attention
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  from the bullshit that they're up to. And it's sad
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  to see how many people have fallen for it, hook
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  line and sinker. And you know now that we're going
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  into the election year that the bullshit is gonna be
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  piled on thick. They're gonna be promising you the whole
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  entire world. But keep in mind, how many of them
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  ever fulfill those promises. The answer is, according to Axios,
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  mister Hoffman and mister Epstein both aggressively fundraised for the
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  MIT Media Lab, and mister Hoffman also inviting mister Epstein
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  to join them at in August twenty fifteen dinner in
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  Silicon Valley that included tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg,
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  and Peter Thiel. You know, the thing with Elon Musk
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  that cracks me up is, all of a sudden, he's
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  some kind of hero for people, some kind of guy
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  that should be, you know, looked at as some sort
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  of role model. Bros out here hanging out with Glenn Maxwell,
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  paling around with Jeffrey Epstein and god knows how many
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  other undesirables. So yeah, if you want to worship them,
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  that's fine, but me no thanks. In an email to
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  mister Thiel, according to The Wall Street Journal, Hoffman wrote
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  that Epstein was a mostly fun, very interesting guy. You
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  may find him perverse, but very smart on biology, computation,
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  and macroeconomics. And because of that, it's okay that he's perverse.
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  It's okay that he's a molestor that he's a human trafficker,
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  because you know, he likes to have some decent conversations.
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  Mister Hoffman's extremely poor judgment leaves many unanswered questions. Recognizing
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  mister Epstein as perverse, how did mister Hoffman justify ongoing
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  collaboration with the convicted pedophile who maintained his own luxury
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  island to traffic underage girls to fulfill the sexual desires
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  of himself and his associates. How could a highly educated, savvy,
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  and instinctive tech billionaire agree to visit such a place
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  with such a person with such a detestable reputation unless
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  it was intentional, showing utter disregard for his own image
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  and that of the business and organizations with which he
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  is identified. That is pretty much the long and short
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  of it, this man knew what he was doing, just
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  like the rest of them. All of the nonsense of
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  I had no idea who Epstein was. I had no
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  idea what he was doing. I don't buy any of that.
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  And all the people that are pitching that to us,
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  they really think we're stupid. But the jokes on them,
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  because we're not going away. We're going to continue to
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  beat the drum of justice from every damn mountaintop that
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  I can get my feet on. Motive AI, another firm
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  credited with backing from billionaire LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman, ran
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  ads through associated limited liability companies that featured offensive content
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  and disinformation. Facebook pages with Motive AI associations made sexist
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  comments about former Congresswoman Tulcy Gabbard and Republican mega donor
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  Rebecca Mercer. One such page called Gabbard a CWILF, which
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  stands for Congresswoman. I'd like to f well, that's nice, huh.
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  Hoffman could easily advocate for LinkedIn to remain open for
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  all reasoned political debate, but there is no evidence that
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  he does. In fact, his own history indicates that he
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  encourages such snubs. As a self styled expert on venture
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  capital funded startups, mister Hoffman recommends one counterintuitive business practice
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  for an alleged path to success, ignore your customers. Is
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  this an image that Microsoft wishes to project. NLPC called
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  for Peterson to ask for Hoffman's resignation, and if he
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  refuses to do so, then to seek his removal. Hoffman
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  is listed as a nominee for re election to the
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  board on the company's proxy statement. Reed Hoffman has been
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  very successful in business. Buddy has shown very poor judgment,
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  said Peter Flaherty, chairman of NLPC. Wealth should not be
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  an exemption from decent behavior. Microsoft will be a better
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  company when Hoffman leaves the board. Well, there's that they
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  didn't mince any words about how they feel. And guess what,
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  I'm on board. Reid Hoffman should step down and he
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  shouldn't have anything to do with Microsoft. The sad truth is, though,
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  that will never happen, and people like Reid Hoffman, people
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  who help Jeffrey Epstein along the way by enabling him
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  and by helping him to refurbish his image, are never
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  going to be held accountable. And that's because you have
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  a legacy media that's complicit. All of the information that
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  goes with this episode, including my contact information, can be
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