(IHP) Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

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🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industry at AdMob; is credited by some people by saving LinkedIn from technical rot; and now, today, oversees Microsoft's efforts in AI, VR/AR all the future things. Fantastic conversation. Kevin's podcast is: Behind the Tech Originally Aired: May 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The The Welcome to the Internet History Podcast. I'm your host as always Brian McCullough.
0:35.0	Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer at Microsoft.
0:40.0	Before that he was at Google, where his work there was influential enough to earn him a Google Founders Award.
0:47.0	And he was at AdMob, and he was at LinkedIn, and I believe actually he's the first person from LinkedIn that we've ever spoken to on the show
0:55.4	Today we're gonna talk about all of that, but of course
0:58.9	CTO of Microsoft we're gonna get into AI and future tech and all that good stuff that Microsoft
1:05.7	is at the forefront of these days as well.
1:09.2	CTO of Microsoft currently, I'm pretty sure that's officially the highest ranking
1:15.9	current executive at any tech company we've ever spoken to on this show. My thanks to all
1:22.2	of the Combs people at Microsoft who worked for many months
1:26.1	to make this great episode happen. Please enjoy this conversation with Microsoft's
1:31.7	CTO Kevin Scott.
1:33.0	Kevin Scott,
1:35.0	Kevin Scott,
1:38.0	Kevin Scott, thanks for coming on the Internet History Podcast.
1:40.0	Thank you so much for inviting me.
1:42.0	You grew up in rural Virginia I believe tobacco country.
1:47.0	I did.
1:48.0	What was the name of the town? I was just reading this right before we got on the air.
1:52.0	Yeah, it's this little town called
1:54.0	Gladys Virginia it's in Camel County and I think Gladys in 1972 when I was born
2:02.4	was population 250 and it's still about the same size in
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