{"id":1376,"date":"2025-03-27T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:02:54","slug":"how-xbox-president-sarah-bond-became-a-major-player-in-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/how-xbox-president-sarah-bond-became-a-major-player-in-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"How Xbox president Sarah Bond became a major player in gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/how-xbox-president-sarah-bond-became-a-major-player-in-gamin_12fs.640.jpg\">One of tech&#x27;s leading female execs, Bond went from playing &#x27;Sonic&#x27; to attending Yale to guiding Microsoft&#x27;s purchase of Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Bond&#8217;s resume may look unconventional, but the president of Xbox believes she&#8217;s in exactly the right place. <\/p>\n<p>Bond started as a McKinsey consultant, spent several years at T-Mobile, including as a chief of staff to former CEO John Legere, and joined Xbox in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A quick summary of her decades-long \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of tech&#x27;s leading female execs, Bond went from playing &#x27;Sonic&#x27; to attending Yale to guiding Microsoft&#x27;s purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}