Kelsey Hightower
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's room to grow.
I'm like, all right, I might do it.
All right.
So I'm glad I did the interview.
And I get home and it felt like that time I doubled my salary.
I told you on the way home.
And I remember I get this email from Satya, the CEO of Microsoft.
And I'm like, man, he wrote this nice email, Kelsey, that heard you had a good experience with the team.
Remember, I did the interview at the Microsoft headquarters, right?
So, hey, heard really good things from the team.
Just wanted to let you know, you know, you're going to be respected here.
We're going to support you as a team.
I'm like, damn, support as a team coming from the CEO?
And the offer was like a PDF.
It's an attachment.
So I read this thing.
And so number one, what an honor.
This is the CEO of Microsoft.
He has so many more important things to be doing than to be emailing me about a role.
And I open a PDF and it has a, like, very often in your career, there's a zero get added to the equation.