Recommitting to our why, what, and how
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reflects on recent layoffs and stresses the company’s mission to empower everyone through AI. He highlights the focus on security, quality, and AI transformation as key priorities. Nadella calls for a growth mindset and teamwork to navigate change and make a lasting impact.
Key takeaways:
- Stay focused on security, quality, and AI innovation.
- Embrace learning and adapt to new challenges.
- Work together to empower people and organizations with AI.
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I also want to acknowledge the uncertainty and seeming incongruence of the times we’re in. By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving—our market performance, strategic positioning, and growth all point up and to the right. We’re investing more in CapEx than ever before. Our overall headcount is relatively unchanged, and some of the talent and expertise in our industry and at Microsoft is being recognized and rewarded at levels never seen before. And yet, at the same time, we’ve undergone layoffs.
- Microsoft is going great…but laying people off
The success we want to achieve will be defined by our ability to go through this difficult process of “unlearning” and “learning.” It requires us to meet changing customer needs, by continuing to maintain and scale our current business, while also creating new categories with new business models and a new production function.
It’s about building tools that empower everyone to create their own tools. That’s the shift we are driving—from a software factory to an intelligence engine empowering every person and organization to build whatever they need to achieve.
- Microsoft started as software. Now it’s moving away from that.
To deliver on our mission, we need to stay focused on our three business priorities: security, quality, and AI transformation.
The key is to get the platform primitives right for these new workloads and for the next order of magnitude of scale. Our differentiation will come from how we bring these layers together to deliver end-to-end experiences and products
- Unified experience, leveraging their existing stack.
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