<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Also stepped down from the Berkshire board as well.&lt;p&gt;Given that he stepped away from a day to day role in 2008 and then stepped down as the chairman in 2014, I&amp;#x27;m guessing he&amp;#x27;s focusing on his foundation.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s still the 8th largest shareholder according to Bloomberg&amp;#x27;s records(103,000,000 share), which is pretty impressive given that the 7 entities above him are all funds.&lt;p&gt;Incase you wanted to know who the remaining 12 board members are:&lt;p&gt;With Gates’ departure, the Board will consist of 12 members, including John W. Thompson, Microsoft independent chair; Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners; Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and chief financial officer of PepsiCo; Teri L. List-Stoll, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap, Inc.; Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft; Sandra E. Peterson, operating partner, Clayton, Dubilier &amp;amp; Rice; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman, PSP Partners; Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer and president of Wells Fargo &amp;amp; Co.; Arne Sorenson, president and CEO, Marriott International Inc.; John W. Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Equity Partners; Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK); and Padmasree Warrior, founder, CEO and president, Fable Group Inc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft&apos;s board</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimbob45</author><text>Whichever poster it was the other day saying that this was the optimal time to send out bad news as a company seems to have been astute.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft&apos;s board</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html</url></story>