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1. Jeff Bezos Blew off Amazon Employees' Proposal at the Shareholder's Meeting and they were Miffed: 'This is not the kind of leadership we need'
  
  Explore Business Insider May 23 2019 BoardNews
  Nearly 8,000 employees have signed an open letter asking Amazon to commit to become a climate-change leader instead of a climate change contributor.
  
  They expected to present their ideas directly to their boss, CEO Jeff Bezos, at the company's annual shareholder's conference where he was scheduled to appear.
  
  But Bezos didn't show up to listen to them.
  
  Although 50 of them were in the room, the company also did not allow any of them to ask a question of him...
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2. Bill Gates is $9.5 Billion Richer Than He Was a Year Ago, Worth Over $100 Billion, But Not Just From Microsoft
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 20 2019 BoardBlogs
  Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest philanthropists who has given away billions of dollars of his money.
  
  That's why so many people think that Gates' personal wealth is shrinking as he gives his money away.
  
  But it isn't. Gates is astoundingly rich and getting richer all the time.
  
  And he just joined a two-man club of people worth more than $100 billion...
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  Mentions: Investment Management SEC
3. Here's Who's Getting Rich from Lyft's Enormous IPO
  
  Explore Business Insider Mar 1 2019 BoardNews
  The S-1 paperwork for Lyft's anticipated multi-billion IPO is now open to the public.
  
  It lists who the major shareholders are.
  
  These are the people that will cash in big time should the stock sale go well...
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4. Read the Email the Oracle Executive Once Rumored to Be The Next CEO Emailed the Company to Announce his 'extended' leave of Absence
  
  Explore Business Insider Sep 6 2018 BoardNews
  Top Oracle exec in charge of building its all-important cloud, Thomas Kurian, is taking a leave of absence.
  
  Business Insider has obtained his email.
  
  The email is written in a way that hints this maybe a permanent good-bye, although a spokesperson tells us that Kurian is expected to return after an unspecified time off...
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  Mentions: Oracle Larry Ellison NetApp
5. Michael Dell will be the CEO of a Public Company Once Again, but it Means Giving up his Power to Never be Fired
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 2 2018 BoardNews
  Michael Dell will once again be running a public company, thanks to a new financing deal with VMware.
  
  As part of that deal, the billionaire CEO has given up something interesting: His ability to veto his own removal as CEO.
  
  He's still basically impossible to remove as CEO, though, with 66% voting power over Dell...
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6. Benchmark Has Dropped its Lawsuit Against Travis Kalanick and Can Never Sue Him Over this Issue Again
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 25 2018 BoardNews
  Benchmark officially dropped its lawsuit against Travis Kalanick on Thursday.
  
  Dropping this suit was part of the deal that sold 15% of Uber to SoftBank.
  
  The suit was dropped "with prejudice" meaning that Benchmark can never decide to sue Kalanick over this issue again.
  
  It's a relatively happy ending between the two estranged Uber board members...
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7. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Just Became an Actual Billionaire with $1.4 Billion in Cash, and he Plans to Start Giving it Away
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 18 2018 BoardNews
  It's been a good day for the former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
  
  A deal with perhaps the most powerful investor in tech, one that had been in the works for months, closed on Thursday.
  
  That deal dropped a cool $1.4 billion in cash into Kalanick's pocket and will soon end a contentious lawsuit with his biggest investor, Benchmark.
  
  Kalanick's first order of business is setting up a charitable foundation and donating a big chunk of his money to it, Business Insider has learned...
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8. Apple Didn't Know That Activist Investors Wanted it it Take on Child Safety
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 13 2018 BoardNews
  Apple didn't know that two of its biggest investors, Jana Partners and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, wanted it to take a bigger role in children safety.
  
  Apple was given a heads-up call shortly before the investors publicly released a letter calling for changes, but the letter wasn't the result of previous talks or suggestions made privately to Apple...
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  Mentions: Activist Investors Investors Whole Foods
9. Benchmark Sold off $900 Million of its Uber Stock But Wanted to Sell More
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 5 2018 BoardNews
  Benchmark is selling nearly 15% of its stake in Uber to Softbank for about $900 million.
  
  The deal is part of Softbank's effort to build up a big stake in ride-hailing giant Uber, by buying shares from existing shareholders and from Uber itself.
  
  Softbank offered to buy shares from existing shareholders at a steep discount to Uber's most recent private valuation. Even so, shareholders offered to sell Softbank more shares than it wanted to buy, including Benchmark....
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10. BREAKING NEWS: Meg Whitman is Stepping Down from the CEO Job at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  
  Explore Business Insider Nov 21 2017 BoardNews
  
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced on Tuesday that CEO Meg Whitman will resign effective February 1, 2018. She will remain on the board of directors.
  
  She is being replaced by Antonio Neri, current President of HPE.
  
  Whitman has taken HPE through some drastic changes since she joined as the CEO in 2011 of what was previously known as Hewlett-Packard. She's conducted layoffs that sliced tens of thousands of employees from HPE, with more layoffs expected to come...
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  Mentions: Meg Whitman Hewlett Packard Enterprises MDC Partners
11. Uber investor Shervin Pishevar has filed a Lawsuit over an Alleged 'Smear Campaign' Against Him
  
  Explore Business Insider Nov 7 2017 BoardNews
  Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar is suing a GOP political opposition research group that he alleges was conducting a smear campaign against him.
  
  The suit claims that the company, Definers Public Affairs, has been calling up reporters and spreading lies about him such as that he's a Russian agent or that he's made a payoff to settle a sexual assault claim...
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12. An Activist Investor Praises Apple, and Slams Google, Over Equal Pay for Women Transparency
  
  Explore Business Insider Sep 28 2017 BoardNews
  
  Activist investor Natasha Lamb is calling on Alphabet, parent company of Google, to quit stalling and to release comprehensive data on how pay for women and men compare. On Wednesday she sent a letter to Alphabet's board demanding more information. Activist investor Natasha Lamb, managing partner for Arjuna Capital, is once again calling on Google to share information on if it pays women equally to men.
  
  On Wednesday, she sent a letter to the company's board with a long list of questions...
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  Mentions: Alphabet Google Amazon
13. Cisco Chairman John Chambers has Resigned and will Move on to the 'Next Chapter' in his Career
  
  Explore Business Insider Sep 18 2017 BoardNews
  
  After 24 years on the board of Cisco, chairman and former CEO John Chambers will officially leave the company when his board term expires in December, the company announced on Monday.
  
  Cisco's current CEO Chuck Robbins will take over as chairman...
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14. Meg Whitman is at the Center of Uber's Boardroom Battle (HPE)
  
  Explore Business Insider Aug 24 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  It looks like the battle over hiring Meg Whitman as the next CEO of Uber isn't entirely over.
  
  Early investor Benchmark sued Kalanick earlier this month, accusing him of undermining the CEO search.
  
  Now, another Uber investor is firing back at Benchmark, charging that it's the venture capital firm that's undermining the company and that it remains determined to get its own favorite candidate, Whitman, into the CEO seat...
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  Mentions: Delaware Uber MDC Partners
15. The VC Firm Suing Travis Kalanick is trying to block other Uber investors from selling their Shares
  
  Explore Business Insider Aug 14 2017 BoardNews
  
  One of Uber's earliest investors is reportedly trying to block other shareholders from selling their shares, reports CNBC, citing sources who seemed less than thrilled with this development.
  
  Trying to block such a sale could be a violation of a board member's fiduciary responsibilities, the people who talked to CNBC said...
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16. A Controversial Ex-Banker is the Person who Really Runs Twitter — and He's Gambling the Company's Future on One Risky Bet (TWTR)
  
  Explore Business Insider Aug 3 2017 BoardBlogs
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  Anthony Noto, COO of Twitter, and former Goldman Sachs banker, is leading the company through challenging times.
  
  He's betting the company on a risky strategy: to turn the social network, famous for celebrity feuds, trolls and Donald Trump, into a destination for live video — from sports to financial news to political debates.
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  Mentions: Google Goldman Sachs Amazon
17. Why Google Really Spent $625 Million on a Company Generating $92 Million in Revenue
  
  Explore Business Insider Nov 7 2016 BoardBlogs
  
  Google cloud boss Diane Greene Google’s $625 million acquisition of Apigee announced in September hasn’t closed yet, but should be done after Apigee’s November 8 stockholder meeting, someone familiar with the matter told Business Insider. That will be a relief to Apigee employees, whose morale was pretty low when the company went public in 2015 ...
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  Mentions: Corporate Performance Mergers and Acquisitions Investment
18. One of Cisco's Star Engineers Defends the Unusual Way Cisco Paid Him (CSCO)
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 21 2016 BoardNews
  
  There's still a lot of rumor and speculation as to what exactly went down between Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and one of its long-time star engineers who recently resigned, Mario Mazzola. After agreeing to move out of an operational role and become an advisor to the company, Mazzola instead publicly quit, and was joined by his top team of two other star engineers, Luca Cafiero, Prem Jain, and their top marketing exec, Soni Jiandani, who also quit Cisco in solidarity...
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  Mentions: stock options MDC Partners
19. Google Paid Board Member Diane Greene $149 Million to Buy her Company and She's Donating it all to Charity
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 5 2016 BoardNews
  
  AP Google's parent company Alphabet just revealed that it paid $380 million to buy a stealth startup called Bebop Technologies founded by Google board member Diane Greene. Her take was 200,729 shares of Alphabet Class C stock at $740.39 each. That's a cool $148.6 million, a sizeable haul for Greene. However, Alphabet says that Greene is not keeping the cash. She intends to donate the money to ...
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20. Amazon Could Cut Prices and Launch a Super-Fast Database to Take on Oracle and SAP Next Week
  
  Explore Business Insider Oct 4 2015 BoardNews
  
  Amazon is hosting its annual AWS re:Invent tech conference next week in Las Vegas, where it talks to customers about its popular Amazon Web Services cloud computing service. There's one rumored new product that could be announced: a new super-fast "in-memory" database. At least that's what Merrill Lynch's Justin Post thinks...
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21. Cisco is Paying its New CEO Over $14 Million Plus Bonuses
  
  Explore Business Insider Oct 1 2015 BoardNews
  
  Cisco will be paying its new CEO Chuck Robbins a respectable, but not astronomical, wage by today's executive compensation standards: A base salary of $1,150,000, a potential bonus of 225% (almost $2.6 million) and $13 million worth of stock — mostly in performance-based restricted stock units, according to documents filed with the SEC . In comparison, Microsoft (a bigger company than Cisco in ...
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  Mentions: Executive Compensation SEC stock options
22. Cisco's John Chambers Spent His Last Month as CEO Flying Around Europe Warning That 40% of Companies Will Die
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 24 2015 BoardNews
  
  On Monday, Cisco's 20-year CEO John Chambers officially retires from the corner office to become executive chairman. He keeps saying that he's not going to be secretly still running the company (though many people inside Cisco don't fully believe that, yet). His role, he says, will be "wing man" to new CEO Chuck Robbins. It appears Chambers means that quite literally...
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23. A Founder who Sold his Company for $260 Million is Being Sued by the Company that Bought it (CSC)
  
  Explore Business Insider May 20 2015 BoardNews
  
  These are strange times for the 56-year-old IT giant, Computer Sciences Corp. CSC has filed a lawsuit accusing one of its star executives, Eric Pulier of fraud connected to an alleged bribery scandal in Australia. CSC is accusing Pulier — former CEO of ServiceMesh, which CSC bought — of making "authorized payments" to two Australian bank executives. The company is seeking to recoup the full $98 million it paid to ServiceMesh shareholders, according to a CSC statement cited by Forbes...
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  Mentions: technology MDC Partners Board of Directors
24. What it's like to be Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Boss
  
  Explore Home - Dover Post - Dover, DE Feb 27 2015 BoardBlogs
  
  Above all, there's one man really rooting for him: The guy that hired him. That's not Bill Gates but Microsoft's current chairman John Thompson, who led the Microsoft CEO search committee...
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