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Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:01:29 David Rosenthal Their efforts launching Bing making that into ultimately a successful business, but even more importantly for Azure that comes out of it.
- ▶ 5:27:29 Ben Gilbert You know, you think AWS, Azure, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:53 David Rosenthal We'll come back to this with Azure.
- ▶ 2:14:46 Ben Gilbert Led to Azure, which we'll talk about later.
- ▶ 2:36:17 David Rosenthal Okay, Ben, I'm too excited for Azure.
- ▶ 2:36:29 Ben Gilbert There's a cohesive story that leads to Azure here.
- ▶ 2:50:48 Ben Gilbert And then they plucked him out of Bing to go run Azure, right?
- ▶ 3:34:48 David Rosenthal It's Azure.
- ▶ 3:35:04 David Rosenthal And the Azure story is
- ▶ 3:35:18 Ben Gilbert Satya Nadella came in and launched Azure, and Azure has been great.
- ▶ 3:39:47 David Rosenthal Of course, Azure should have come from within there.
- ▶ 3:39:58 Ben Gilbert And that group is not the group that produced Azure, the cloud service that runs, at the time, Windows Server.
- ▶ 3:42:37 David Rosenthal And the two of them recruit a team, and they build Azure.
- ▶ 3:42:42 David Rosenthal Cutler builds a new hypervisor that Azure runs on from scratch without using open source like himself.
- ▶ 3:44:17 Ben Gilbert Two, in its initial incarnation, Azure did not threaten
- ▶ 3:44:27 Ben Gilbert If you remember, when Azure launched, it was Windows Azure, and it ran Windows Server, and it was Platform as a Service, and Microsoft in no way changed its tune on open source.
- ▶ 3:45:10 Ben Gilbert They never at all wanted to be a part of anything that open source developers were doing until a couple of years into Azure.
- ▶ 3:45:24 David Rosenthal They didn't go full infrastructure as a service and embrace open source and let people use Azure to run Linux into LAMP stack on top of it.
- ▶ 3:45:59 Ben Gilbert But Azure came in with an aggressive point of view.
- ▶ 3:46:31 David Rosenthal So, in 2010, Ray Ozzie actually leaves the company, but as he's doing, he and Steve roll Red Dog, by this point in time renamed Azure, back into the server and tools business, and the two of them go to the University of Washington, and…
- ▶ 3:46:52 David Rosenthal We are all in, and we are betting the company on cloud and on Azure.
- ▶ 3:47:58 Ben Gilbert And from what I can tell, it's just as motivated by Azure is the future
- ▶ 3:48:46 David Rosenthal The more personal computing segment, that's Windows and Surface and their hardware efforts, and then the intelligent cloud segment, and that's Azure.
- ▶ 3:50:13 David Rosenthal Less so today, but in the earlier days of the Azure transition.
- ▶ 3:53:09 Ben Gilbert I mean, there was some conflict business model-wise with Windows Server, since Azure would be an orthogonal business model, but the technical chops were there.
- ▶ 3:54:06 Ben Gilbert There was seven years before Steve Ballmer handed the reins to Satya where Azure development was happening under him.
- ▶ 3:54:35 Ben Gilbert I could see if you were an Azure doubter, and you were sitting there at the top of Microsoft enjoying the Windows monopoly, the tremendous business that is Windows and Office, and thinking, why would I do anything to jeopardize this?
- ▶ 3:56:22 Ben Gilbert I mean, Azure was being built, so it was successful enough that it sort of erases everything else, but a lot of listeners know this, but I worked at Microsoft from 20 11 to 20 14.
- ▶ 4:07:54 David Rosenthal And at the same time, everybody knew, hey, there is a huge win that we are sitting on right here, like a huge, huge, huge win in Azure.
- ▶ 4:08:47 David Rosenthal Probably, like, I don't know, I haven't done a sum of the parts analysis, but I think you can say probably at least half is Azure, propping up that market cap.
- ▶ 4:14:58 David Rosenthal If you cannot tell your story right and in a compelling fashion, this is what's gonna happen to your stock price, even if you triple revenues and profits and build Azure and all these things.
- ▶ 4:20:16 David Rosenthal Actually, I would say they had some of it in the development of Azure, because they could say to Fortune 500, we will do hybrid cloud with you, and we can be your trusted partner in a way that AWS couldn't.
- ▶ 4:40:16 David Rosenthal And what they have done with Azure and in cloud and now with AI is, I mean, hell, they're the most valuable company in the world.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:12:35 David Rosenthal The punchline here is that NT becomes the seeds of Windows Server, the business line, which become the seeds of Azure today.