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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:07 David Rosenthal So Reid says, hey, why don't you come talk to Satya about this?
- ▶ 2:09:10 Ben Gilbert Do you know where he actually talks to Satya?
- ▶ 2:09:13 David Rosenthal In July of 2018, they set a meeting for Sam Altman and Satya Nadella to sit down while they're both at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
- ▶ 2:10:58 Ben Gilbert Showing up again, saying, what was Satya's line?
- ▶ 2:13:04 Ben Gilbert Satya and Sam are on stage together talking about how this amazing partnership and marriage has come together and they're off to model training.
- ▶ 2:32:50 Ben Gilbert Announces a new Bing powered by OpenAI, and Satya has a quote,
- ▶ 2:33:03 Ben Gilbert He says, we want to rethink what search was meant to be in the first place.
- ▶ 2:33:46 David Rosenthal This is when Satya says the quote in an interview around this launch with Bing.
- ▶ 2:38:25 David Rosenthal Satya has the quote about wanting to make Google dance.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:49 Ben Gilbert Now, as most of you know, we did a big two-part Microsoft series last year on the history of the company up through when Steve transitioned the CEO role to Satya Nadella.
- ▶ 1:15:41 Steve Ballmer That's not my, you know, Sachin and Amy and company, they know where they were, but to your original question, big companies deciding, well, it's not always a mistake to build off what you got.
- ▶ 1:51:56 Steve Ballmer And I was much louder on this than, than Satya is on anything financial, because I'm, it's kind of how I'm programmed.
- ▶ 2:02:40 Steve Ballmer And Chi, I think, went to graduate school with Harry Shum, who had been in Microsoft Research, and Harry was now working on Search, and he was working for Satya, who was running Bing.
- ▶ 2:02:56 Ben Gilbert Oh, Satya, the guy who was running Bing.
- ▶ 2:03:16 Steve Ballmer Okay, so Satya, me, Harry fly down to California, and we meet with Chi Lu, and we talk to Chi, and Chi's brilliant, and we're learning all this stuff about Chi, and Chi leaves the room.
- ▶ 2:03:33 Steve Ballmer Maybe Satya.
- ▶ 2:03:43 Steve Ballmer Harry worked for Satya, who worked for Chi.
- ▶ 2:04:17 Steve Ballmer It's what it told me about Satya.
- ▶ 2:04:19 Steve Ballmer Ah, I mean, I love Satya.
- ▶ 2:04:49 Steve Ballmer I mean, and she's an, I mean, Sach is not an engineer by training.
- ▶ 2:05:00 Steve Ballmer Uh, Sach has been great at managing product development.
- ▶ 2:05:16 Steve Ballmer But what Satya and Harry did that day where they just found a guy and said, we'll hire, please Steve, go hire him as our boss.
- ▶ 2:05:36 Ben Gilbert So Satya became CEO for five years.
- ▶ 2:05:38 Steve Ballmer And that let me then be able to also say, now I can give Satya more responsibility doing something else.
- ▶ 2:06:22 Steve Ballmer If you get, Satya gets by bus, if Satya serves another five years, it's probably a different person.
- ▶ 2:07:00 Steve Ballmer He's done, done fantastically well, but, uh, we moved Satya into that job, but it,
- ▶ 2:07:14 Steve Ballmer Showed just how right Satya was.
- ▶ 2:56:52 David Rosenthal I mean, Microsoft, the Microsoft transition, Steve Satya, this is what was in the water.
- ▶ 2:57:16 Ben Gilbert We were early in Satya's tenure when we started the show.
- ▶ 2:57:20 Ben Gilbert He had started to transform the culture, but it's come a long way.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:48:34 Ben Gilbert For listeners out there, I'd spend a good amount of time with Soma Soma Segar, who is the former Microsoft exec now at Madrona, who is a co-owner with Satya Nadella of the Seattle Major League cricket team.
- ▶ 3:52:21 David Rosenthal So you've got CEOs, like you mentioned, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai.
- ▶ 4:25:45 Ben Gilbert A few that we want to thank in particular on air are Soma Soma Segar, one of the owners, along with Satya Nadella, of the major league cricket team in the U.S., the Seattle Orcas.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:20 Emily Chang Who came in and was like, Microsoft just bought LinkedIn, and you have to interview Satya and Jeff Wiener in an hour.
- ▶ 55:02 Emily Chang Shocker, Satya Nadella is on the AI train early.
- ▶ 55:15 Emily Chang He said, Satya has run Microsoft as a type of founder.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:32 David Rosenthal So, Ben, you covered this in your intro, but I think everybody kind of knows the narrative about what happened to Microsoft between, call it, 1995 and 20 14 when Satya took over.
- ▶ 3:44 David Rosenthal There's even a quote from Satya himself in the very first paragraph of the book that he wrote in 2017 called Hit Refresh, which, I mean, that title kind of gives it away right there.
- ▶ 4:32 David Rosenthal And you can sum this kind of whole narrative up as Microsoft was winning, and then it sucked for a long time, and then it is now winning again, and that's all thanks to Satya.
- ▶ 1:34:35 David Rosenthal Yeah, it's telling for the magnitude of this partnership to see Satya Nadella appearing in the keynote at ServiceNow's big annual event, Knowledge, last month.
- ▶ 2:49:36 Ben Gilbert Satya Nadella.
- ▶ 2:49:38 David Rosenthal Satya Nadella.
- ▶ 2:49:39 David Rosenthal Other piece of Satya trivia that I very much suspect you do not know.
- ▶ 2:49:44 David Rosenthal Satya joined Microsoft first in 1992 from Sun Microsystems, and he joined as an evangelist for Windows NT.
- ▶ 3:35:18 Ben Gilbert Satya Nadella came in and launched Azure, and Azure has been great.
- ▶ 3:47:47 David Rosenthal And the person that Steve taps to do that from Bing is none other than Satya Nadella.
- ▶ 3:48:03 Ben Gilbert and it needs a new leader as it is Satya is a really talented rising executive in this company and needs to be put on an important project.
- ▶ 3:49:52 David Rosenthal And Satya was hyping up how much cloud revenue the company was doing.
- ▶ 3:54:06 Ben Gilbert There was seven years before Steve Ballmer handed the reins to Satya where Azure development was happening under him.
- ▶ 3:54:21 David Rosenthal And Steve is the one who handpicked Satya to lead it and get all the credit and the narrative and the win and then become the CEO.
- ▶ 3:55:55 David Rosenthal And without taking anything away from Satya, because I think he does absolutely deserve a ton of credit for knocking it out of the park on execution.
- ▶ 3:58:25 Ben Gilbert The year later, we did ship it actually right after Satya became CEO.
- ▶ 3:59:41 David Rosenthal It really, it was an easy win for Satya during his first year to say, culture has changed here, we are shipping Office on iPad.
- ▶ 4:05:03 David Rosenthal At one point, as Satya talks about in the book, there's a straw poll taken of all the division heads, all the top leaders in the company, whether they're for or against the acquisition.
- ▶ 4:05:18 David Rosenthal Satya is against the acquisition.
- ▶ 4:06:42 David Rosenthal February fourth, 2014, Satya Nadella is introduced as the next CEO of Microsoft.
- ▶ 4:07:15 David Rosenthal Like, there is truth to what Satya wrote in his book that we said at the very beginning of the episode of, hey, this company culture needed a reset.
- ▶ 4:09:46 Ben Gilbert Until 2014 was Satya was announced.
- ▶ 4:15:28 David Rosenthal And it's for another episode, but it really was brilliant what Satya did and the company did when he came in of, they got the story right.
- ▶ 4:17:43 Ben Gilbert This whole notion you have, David, that Satya came in and we were great, and then we sucked for a while, and then we were great again.
- ▶ 4:26:55 Ben Gilbert But ironically, the playbook that Satya is now running is a return to a classic Microsoft one, embrace and extend.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:42:18 Ben Gilbert Satya's interesting.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40 Ben Gilbert Ben has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Rich Barton, Meredith Kopitlevian of the New York Times, Pat Gelsinger of Intel, and John Collison, and Many, many more.
- ▶ 1:46:29 Ben Thompson But then when Nadella came in and sort of refocused the company, they had this foundation of talent that the HP's of the world, the Yahoo's of the world had long since lost.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:38 Ben Gilbert So they replaced the leader of that organization at the time of Windows Server and Tools Business with Satya, who would eventually, of course, become CEO and then really double down on the cloud strategy.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:49:31 Packy McCormick Someone, I think, signed up with Satya Nadella's email address, but like, it certainly wasn't him, and that email address has never opened an email, so I think that was a prank.