Satya Nadella

“Satya feels perfectly comfortable having me meet with, like, everybody, like, people in company, product groups, and everything else, because he knows that I'm actually, in fact, very capable of giving that kind of advice and listening and so forth, without sa…”

“Microsoft before Satya was a little insular. Like, we're up there in the woods in Seattle, and we didn't really kind of get down to the valley very much, right?”

“I mean, how could you not, right? I think Satya has done an amazing job making a, making Satya and Kevin Scott have done an amazing job championing, like really believing in this set of technologies, taking a bunch of bets, open AI and otherwise, using it as a…”

“I was super wrong. When Satya came into the enterprise business, this is before he was CEO, he came in in very short order and made a lot of really difficult decisions. How the org was structured how contractors were hired, how we thought about the cloud versu…”

“Of the tech leadership, of Satya Nadella, of Sundar at Google, of Zuck, has been astounding, and it's been correct and forceful in condemning, ah, the animalistic barbarian behavior of Hamas and the terror that they've wrought.”

“I have the fortunate privilege of having Satya be a mentor of mine, and I am absolutely fascinated by the complexity of that business, and how he makes sense out of it all.”

“The very first OpenAI Microsoft deal was, you know, Satya and Kevin Scott brought to the Microsoft board. We want to put a billion dollars into the investment in this vehicle. From a five one C three that doesn't really have any particular plans at making its …”

“Look, Satya has been, probably the thing I've most learned from Satya has been, how do you do cultural transformation of massive scale organizations? And he has demonstrated that that is doable and possible. In ways that I don't know if anyone ever has before.”

“I actually don't agree with that at all. I think he's completely wrong. I think it depends on how you define a business app. But I actually think that if the new business apps are platforms, you'll, you'll actually start to see those platforms really take hold…”

“It's a hard one, but I would probably say Microsoft. I think again, if you can only buy one, you probably want it to be a pretty safe one. You want it to be one that benefits from all of the disruption AI is going to bring to the field rather than like falls f…”

“If you accept the constraint, That you can't build the core technology internally, which is what Microsoft Had to accept, and he accepted, right? Execution since then has been perfect.”