Episode · Acquired · 2024-07-22
Books mentioned on Microsoft Volume II
In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hit Refresh
Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella is a reflective leadership book that chronicles Microsoft's cultural transformation under its CEO and explores the intersection of human empathy, artificial intelligence, and corporate reinvention.
Discussed“there's even a quote from SAA himself in the very first paragraph of the book that he wrote in 2017 called Hit refresh which I mean that title kind of gives it away right there”
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The Road Ahead
Discussed“but in this book called The Road head I have two copies of it here on my desk the hard cover copy and the soft cover copy which was revised and came out in 1996”

