David Rosenthal: belief

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…The question remains, who bought Nokia? We don’t really know. In any event, here’s what happens next. February 4th, 2014, Satya Nadella is introduced as the next CEO of Microsoft. Steve Ballmer steps down. On that same day, Bill also steps down as chairman of the board, and John Thompson becomes chairman of the board. It’s a wholesale changing of the guard within Microsoft, Bill, Steve, the original folks we’re retiring. We’re done, it is a new day, and that needed to happen. The office for iPad discussion we had a minute ago, I think was emblematic. There is truth to what Satya wrote in his book that we said at the very beginning of the episode of, hey, this company culture needed a reset. It’s like a bigger version of Brad Smith’s presentation to the board of it’s time to make peace. It’s time to make peace internally and there just needed to be a reset. There was a lot of baggage. It’s just what? Forty years of baggage—Bill, Steve, old wars, antitrust, bad releases of windows. You just got to get it out to move on. It was Bill and Steve leaving in one fell swoop to clear the path.…

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