The Company I Invested In Is Probably

It's The Luxury Of Time That Lets Me In Some Ways Now Spoil Myself. I Get My Workout In Every Day. I Get A Good, Long Sleep Every Day. I Won't Say They're Guilty Pleasures. When I First Left Microsoft, I Would Say I Spent The Better Part Of A Year Saying, "ok, How Do I Get As Busy And Crazy And Manic As I Was At Microsoft?" Since Then I Said, "no, I'll Make A Bigger Contribution In This Phase Of My Life By Being Able To Pick And Choose, Not Being So Manic, Having Time To Step Back, A Little More Time For What I'll Call Discernment Rather Than Just Activity."

Look At The Product Pipeline, Look At The Fantastic Financial Results We've Had For The Last Five Years. You Only Get That Kind Of Performance On The Innovation Side, On The Financial Side, If You're Really Listening And Reacting To The Best Ideas Of The People We Have.

Throughout Our History, Microsoft Has Won By Making Big, Bold Bets. I Believe That Now Is Not The Time To Scale Back The Scope Of Our Ambition Or The Scale Of Our Investment. While Our Opportunities Are Greater Than Ever, We Also Face New Competitors, Faster-moving Markets And New Customer Demands.

In Terms Of The Public Positioning Of The Company, Satya's [nadella] Done A Very Good Job. He Sort Of Pivoted In A Way That I Don't Think Would Have Been Possible For Me To Do Even If I'd Seen It That Way, To Really Talk About This Mobile-first, Cloud-first World.

Everyone Likes To Differentiate Between Business And Consumers But I Don't See The Difference Really. Most People Are People. I Get Personal And Business Mail And I Have One Set Of Contacts From My Life. I Don't Want To Manage Two Sets. I Want One View Of My World.