Kelsey Hightower

And so I'm meeting all of these leaders.

They're bringing all of these people who are behind the scenes.

I remember me and Scott Gunther from the first time.

And I didn't really know who he was because I just didn't know how, I didn't know the lineage and the history of Microsoft.

And, you know, of course, I'm looking up who these people are.

And I was like, wow, this is, they're courting me.

Oh, this is what that feels like.

I mean, Google did it a little bit too, but not like this was like, I'm, I'm looking, I'm looking at the, these are the executive directors.

You know what?

And that's the thing that I appreciated a lot because they were like, this is your career.

You built a fantastic career over there.

We can't ask you to throw that away without understanding what you would be doing here.

And so it was like, if you want to understand the business, if there's someone you haven't gotten a chance to talk to, just give us a name.

And I'm talking to them.

And the one thing that I really respected about Microsoft was, I think by that time they had also acquired GitHub.

And so they had a big vision for themselves, a lot of diversity.

And I was like, okay, there's a lot of opportunity here.

They're also all in on Kubernetes.

They had just acquired people like Deus and Brendan Burns is there.

So I was like, all right, Kelsey, you can come and make an impact.