"gotcha we are so excited to have you today as you can see you've said that Microsoft's mission is not to be cool it's to make others cool but Bob Dylan is playing across campus today and you sold out ..."

"so changing the you know it's it's interesting in fact I just my father passed away just last month and I've been reflecting quite a bit on what my both my parents have meant to me my father was a Mar..."

"things it's it's really clear how much your parents influenced you and another foundational influence for you with sports now my fellow international classmates and I we're mystified daily by American..."

"one of the lessons I learned he was building your confidence and okay by making you that's right so you didn't end up playing professional cricket Here I am but you didn't make your way to the US and ..."

"that that's so core and some people say well like what what does that have to do with sort of business or what does it have to do with work and I believe it has everything to do with work you know I b..."

"been the most influential in how I've sort of thought about whether it's distributed computing at its core whether it's the economic models that are going to be emergent and that has been very very he..."

"the crux of it which is if you think about every job you get as the most important job and as the thing that is perhaps your last job but you gave it all and of course you know from there a lot of thi..."

"thing that perhaps I was more grounded having worked with them is as a non founder CEO I needed to make explicit some of the things that I think founder CEOs can take for granted because founder CEOs ..."

"what we our core identity is right especially in 2019 where every company is a software company around the world we can just basically be a software platform and tools provider and have a good busines..."

"learning organization and in fact my wife would introduce me to a book by a Stanford professor Carol Dweck which I read mindset many years before I became CEO you know it was a huge influence in our h..."

"right how do you bring about long-term change I mean I'll say one other thing one of the reasons why I feel at least we have some momentum I'm very very careful not to sort of paint this some destinat..."

"of the senior leadership team meeting itself it's an interesting thing every time I question myself on everything that we talk about as what we espouse that is more broadly applicable across the compa..."

"and what is the everyday experience of you know what happens at Microsoft interesting enough I have calls that come to recognize that that first level manager has probably the most influence on what h..."

"them feel included as part of the company so we've talked a lot about culture let's shift and talk a bit about strategy and particularly the cloud because today we sort of take the cloud for granted b..."

"profit margin and guess what it's not possible so someone somewhere has to remove some constraint who does it leaders do it so he removed the constraint called gross margin he said go win this market ..."

"culture is what allows you to express that identity with new opportunity I think many of us in this room want to use our careers to create impact at scale and you have committed almost 30 years to Mic..."

"scale it's all about teams teams inside or teams outside that's what it takes and the second thing that you also need is to realize that you know a lot of people talk about the matrix and the complexi..."

"what the craft of creation of AI looks like how we design systems where the human is in loop we get to decide that as a society even what we are comfortable with and not comfortable with so I don't wa..."

"that I think we all want to live in and given Microsoft's vision to democratize AI you know there are concerns about what might happen if those tools get into the wrong hands and you've just mentioned..."

"safety I mean there will be regulation and we should be okay with it in fact if anything our practices in our data of what's good what's not what's the state of Technology should inform that regulatio..."

"large organizations should welcome it and and we all can learn from it and the call though especially in technology business we collectively as an industry have to just mature and mature at a very fas..."

"self-reflection and change so I want to circle back to your own leadership style and values and what strikes me is that you seem to combine this sense of self and ability to stay true to your leadersh..."

"asking and then to be able to understand others that's also another journey of a lifetime right which is you sort of feel like you understand what others is saying you understand where they're coming ..."

"your team's grounded among the six great that's great that's a great question you know there's this book I recently read by David Brooks called a second mountain it was an interesting book because he ..."

"thank you such a and I think on that note we will turn it over to some questions from the audience hi my name is tarik Arad peer and I'm a first year MBA student and I'm asking this question in conjun..."

"good step in the direction of having privacy enshrined in a legislative sort of press set of processes so that's how I look at it I don't see how withholding technology from as I said the institutions..."

"for GSB grads in 2019 hello hi I'm Casey Lewin who an MBA - I also worked at Microsoft before I came here I think I might be the only one not that team let's go that's great I was just wondering in yo..."

"organization will be so will now turn it back to our traditional lightning round and don't be scared we're changing it up a little bit this time I'm going to ask you to complete a few sentences for me..."