Satya Nadella
21 statements across 2 episodes · 14 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2024 by Jared Quincy Davis · said 11 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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- No Priors Ep. 8 | With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
- No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
- No Priors Ep. 14 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
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Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Davis: Public clouds own only basis points of global GPU capacity
“What percentage of the world's GPU petaflock capacity, or exaflock capacity, is kind of owned by the major public clouds. And I've asked this many people, and I typically have gotten guesses, you know, in the high tens of percents, and the only time I got a lo…”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: Human capital stays essential as AI token capital expands
“At the end of the day, every company is going to have both the human capital that is still going to be super valuable because humans and their ability to find the gaps that exist at all times is going to be the way we all will create value, right? I mean, so I…”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: WorkIQ exposes Microsoft 365 data as a database for AI
“The same thing is now happening with M three, six, five, because with work IQ, we have exposed what was perhaps the most important database in a company that never got used as a database because it was only captive to our apps, right?”
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Nadella: Within six months, AI autopilots will routinely work overnight for users
“I'm positive that six months from now, we'll all be saying, oh, wow, like, all through night, the night, there was a bunch of stuff that all these autopilots that I have working on my behalf with my delegated authority, so to speak, right? I can, sort of, give…”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: LinkedIn created a 'full stack builder' role combining PM, design, engineering
“At LinkedIn, they did structurally change and, you know, basically built up a new discipline called full stack builder, right? So they went and said, hey, let's bring people from design and product management, front end engineering, all put them together but a…”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: Platforms must enable custom intelligence layers, not single-model worship
“That idea that you can build a platform layer that someone else can then extend out and build their own intelligence layer in this case, I think is everything right without it. Why have a developer conference? I can just come and have you all sort of just wors…”
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Nadella: AI agent usage of Microsoft 365 could exceed human end users
“So the value creation opportunity now in the agent world is in fact, 10 X more, but it does require us to have, for example, there's going to be usage around M. Three, six, five, right? Which is going to be perhaps more than even the end users.”
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Nadella: AI agents capturing tacit knowledge belong on corporate balance sheets
“So if you have a, like if you take in teams, I have a bunch of agents doing work and a bunch of humans doing work and the traces between those, that is really important context of how that enterprise is creating value. Then that goes back to train, not a gener…”
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: Private AI evals may be an enterprise's biggest IP
“Every company having private evals may be the biggest IP, right? I think about it, like what's that private eval that you can then use even a frontier model to hill climb on and not leak the traces. Maybe one of the biggest drivers of IP.”
Jun 4, 2026 bearish
Nadella: Enterprise customers reject outcome pricing once results materialize
“Most people love outcomes until they have an outcome, because once you have an outcome, it's like giving away royalty, right? I mean, I've talked to customers who love, you know, outcome based pricing, and I say, I'm all in until they, oh my God, like, what ar…”
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Nadella: Public AI benchmarks are gamed; companies need private evaluations
“Most importantly, you'll have private evals because we know all the evals out there are good, interesting, But they're not really that critical at this point because they're all can be maxed. And so the point is each company will have its own private eval.”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella built a personal chief-of-staff autopilot agent using Foundry and Teams
“What I'm building a lot of Is these long running foundry agents right? So there's autopilots. So the easiest thing is to me, I think I just built one even last week where the idea was, hey, can I have an agent that is continuously monitoring essentially my own…”
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: Next major startup success could build a new university
“So I think interestingly enough, maybe the next big startup and success story could be Someone who builds a new university or a new pedagogy even of how to get someone to go through a curriculum and find economic opportunity, ah, that's highly valuable.”
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Nadella: Microsoft-OpenAI partnership began around scaling compute on transformers
“Obviously I got into all this when I got excited by the scaling laws paper and, you know, when, You know, even the OpenAI partnership came about when those folks said, hey, we're going to really throw a lot of computer transformers and they've helped, right?”