Taking Microsoft Into the Cloud | The Evangelist | 3
Business Movers
Wondery
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Satya gets to work uniting Microsoft with a fresh vision, but internal resistance and a public blunder make it difficult for the new CEO to build the trust necessary for a true cultural renaissance.
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| 0:30.0 | It's the morning of February 2nd, 2014, inside Studio D on Microsoft's campus. |
| 0:40.0 | Whispers of anticipation sweep through the atrium as employees flood the building, ready to welcome Microsoft's newest CEO. |
| 0:47.0 | Soon the crowd occupies every part of the building's three floors, balconies and stairwells. |
| 0:53.0 | As the building reaches capacity, Satya Nadella, Steve Falmer and Bill Gates walk onto a small stage set up in the middle of the atrium. |
| 1:02.0 | Cheers and applause begin to echo throughout the building. |
| 1:05.0 | Satya listens to the crowd grow even louder as Bill steps forward to highlight the momentous convergence of the only CEOs in Microsoft's 40-year history. |
| 1:15.0 | This companies have three CEOs. They're all right here. This is all... |
| 1:21.0 | The crowd roars. Satya feels Steve panicked on the back and he looks over at his predecessor and smiles. |
| 1:28.0 | Satya sees his own excitement and sentimentality reflected in Steve's face. |
| 1:33.0 | Then Satya gazes out at the hundreds of Microsoft employees filling the building to its brim. |
| 1:38.0 | In their faces, he sees a more complicated set of emotions, hope, anxiety, excitement and frustration. |
| 1:46.0 | Satya knows not everyone is eager to welcome a new leader, but he hopes he will be able to ease some of that discomfort today as he shares his vision for the future of Microsoft. |
| 1:57.0 | Satya mentally rehearses his speech as Microsoft's new chairman, John Thompson, steps forward to introduce him as the company's new CEO. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, Sunday was a really, really big day in Seattle. |
| 2:13.0 | And it didn't have anything to do with the Seahawks because on Sunday morning, our board met and unanimously appointed Satya our next CEO. |
| 2:29.0 | We said that we would do an extensive search externally and internally to make sure that we had a good sense of what the talent landscape looked like and guess what? |
| 2:38.0 | The best talent we could find for this job was right here inside Microsoft. |
| 2:43.0 | Satya gives the chairman an appreciative nod before stepping forward to give his first remarks as Microsoft's chief officer. |
| 2:51.0 | You know, this business of ours is an exciting business and one of the core things that we've got to realize is that this business does not really respect tradition. |
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