Satya
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Microsoft Failed to Build Competitive In-House Frontier AI Models
“They clearly tried to make a frontier model. They failed. You know, Satya said, we're gonna have our own models that are very competitive. Like, I think he said that 18 months ago. They don't have their own models that are competitive.”
Evans: OpenAI's huge user base is fragile without network effects
“You've got these eight or nine hundred million weekly active users, but you don't have, but that feels very fragile because all you've really got is the power of the default and the brand. You don't have a network effect. You don't really have feature lock-in.…”
O'Driscoll: Microsoft leadership nailed OpenAI deal, but failed on shipping technology
“I think when all is said, and as I said before, on Microsoft's side, when all is said and done, the shareholders should award medals to Satya, The CFO and their GC and they should hire someone else to do their technology because they haven't shipped, right?”
Huang: Hyperscalers support NVIDIA's direct purchasing deals with AI labs
“But they would like to have the same direct relationship with us, direct working relationship, and direct purchasing relationship. Meta, just as what Zuck and Meta has with us it's exactly a direct. Our relationship with between us and Sundar and Google, direc…”
Reid Hoffman calls Satya Nadella the best public market CEO of this generation
“I think Satya is like the best public market CEO of our generation.”
Sturdy: Non-founder CEOs are often best suited to scale growth companies
“So I would like to invest in a non-founder led company. You point out Satya, I know dozens of incredible CEOs that were not founders and have same, but different mix of special sauce that makes them The right person to lead that company, and often to lead the …”
Altman and Luan pitched Microsoft's top leadership before the OpenAI investment
“The last meeting we did with Microsoft, Before Microsoft invested in OpenAI, Sam Altman, myself, and our CFO flew up to Seattle to do the final pitch meeting. And I'd been a founder before, so I always had like a tremendous amount of anxiety about partner meet…”
Shah: Satya Nadella acted as Krishna during the OpenAI crisis
“For example, let's say Satya during the open AI crisis played Krishna and got things out, but he'll switch back to being Rama and continue to keep scaling it up.”