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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview

“Qi (I think) went to graduate school with Harry Shum, who had been in Microsoft Research.”

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2 Jun 2025
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Acquired

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…I knew he was important, but tell us the story. Pivotal in a way you may not even know. First of all, brilliant guy. Great guy. Qi’s talking about leaving Yahoo. He’s at Yahoo at the time. Qi (I think) went to graduate school with Harry Shum, who had been in Microsoft Research. Harry was now working on search, and he was working for Satya who was running Bing. That’s an amazing sentence all in itself. Oh, Satya the guy who was running Bing.…

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