Real correspondence from the people running real companies — and what it reveals about leadership.
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Phil Spencer & Jeff D Fisher ·Microsoft ·22 FEB 2023
Captured days after Microsoft signed a ten-year cloud-gaming agreement with NVIDIA, this brief exchange between the heads of Xbox and NVIDIA's GeForce unit surfaced inside the FTC's lawsuit to block Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition — making private deal-making correspondence part of the public antitrust record.
Amy Hood ·Microsoft ·26 JUN 2023
When your platform is losing relevance, don't defend it — buy the assets that live on the platforms that are winning.
Kate Plikus ·Microsoft ·2 OCT 2018
In ad markets, scale isn't just an advantage — it's the price of admission to compete at all.
Satya Nadella ·Microsoft ·13 OCT 2023
Read this memo as a brief to Microsoft employees and it is bland. Read it as a brief to regulators, courts, and reporters and it is meticulous.