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Before that in the headlines, why Microsoft CEO is haunted by the prospect of the company not surviving the AI era.

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each were a dominant tech company of their era, just as Microsoft is today. It turns out that

Microsoft CEO, Satchinadella, is, as the Verge puts it,

haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving. Speaking to a company-wide town hall last week,

Satya said, some of the biggest businesses we've built might not be as relevant going forward.

Our industry is full of case studies of companies that were great ones that just disappeared.

I'm haunted by one particular one called DEC.

Now, DEC was a mini-computer manufacturing company in the early 1970s.

The first computer Nadella used was a DEC, and growing up, all he wanted to do was go and work

for the company.

However, by the early 90s, they had been thoroughly out-competed by IBM after making a string of failed bets on emerging architecture.

In fact, Nadella commented, some of the people who contributed to Windows antique came from a DEC lab that was laid off.

I think about that and I think about what it takes for a company not just to thrive at one time, but to continue to actually have the smartest best people.

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