Nadella: Change management is the real rate limiter for AI deployment
Satya Nadella · Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator · Jun 25, 2025 · at 12:07
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella answers Garry Tan's question regarding the biggest bottleneck currently facing widespread enterprise AI adoption.
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“So that change management is the real rate remitter, right? Because you're now taking the means of production in an insurance company, in a financial services company, in a healthcare company, in a software company. And saying, we are going to change everything in the way we work. In fact, we're going to change what jobs they are. Like, you know, at LinkedIn, I think they took multiple of these functions the design function, the front end engineer function, the product function, put them all together and said, we're going to have full stack builders. That's a change in scope of even a job. And so how do you then rebuild the product team with new roles, new scopes and what have you? That's to me more the social rate limiter. Not that there's lots of other things around deployment of this technology, getting it out to the world. Power is one. There are other issues, but I would say change management.”
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