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Recode radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher.

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor at Recode.

You may know me better as the person least likely to have just bent a burning man,

but in my spare time, I'm a tech reporter in Silicon Valley, and you're listening to Recode Decode,

a podcast about Silicon Valley's key players, big ideas, and how they were changing the world we live in.

Today's guest in the red chair is Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's executive vice president of business development,

which puts her in charge of partnerships, M&A, and a whole range of other issues of Microsoft's outward facing world.

When Sachin Adela, the new CEO, shook up its senior ranks earlier this summer,

he put Johnson in charge of the company's many partnerships, and also has her looking all around for acquisitions.

Johnson spent more than two decades at Qualcomm before joining the company last year.

For more on Microsoft and where it's going, here's Peggy. Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Cara. It's nice to be here. Thanks for coming in.

We're talking about a wide range of things, but I think people don't know you as well.

We're doing this podcast is trying to get people to understand a lot of the players in Silicon Valley and in tech that they may not know as well.

So give us your background a little bit.

My background is I spent 24 years at Qualcomm in a variety of roles. I'm an engineer by training,

and I worked at different roles, program manager, and sales and marketing for a time.

But I ended my last role there was head of their business development and marketing,

and also their internal incubator called Qualcomm Labs, where they would come up with ideas and things like that.

They had a very active. They did. We did a lot of things.

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