{"id":80659,"date":"2022-02-08T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80659"},"modified":"2022-02-07T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T04:44:04","slug":"peter-thiel-to-step-down-from-board-of-facebook-parent-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2022\/peter-thiel-to-step-down-from-board-of-facebook-parent-meta.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel to step down from board of Facebook parent Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Billionaire tech investor and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/PYPL\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a> Co-founder Peter Thiel will step down from the board of Facebook owner <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>, the company <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/peter-thiel-to-retire-from-meta-board-of-directors-at-2022-annual-shareholder-meeting-301476881.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Monday. Thiel, an early Facebook investor and close confidante of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will not stand for re-election to the board at the company\u2019s 2022 annual stockholders\u2019 meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/07\/peter-thiel-to-step-down-from-facebook-board.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Billionaire tech investor and PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel will step down from the board of Facebook owner Meta, the company announced Monday. Thiel, an early Facebook investor and close confidante of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will not stand for re-election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80660,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80659\/revisions\/80660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}