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Satya Nadella

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

In fact, as soon as I joined Microsoft, I think, what is it like the, you know, the browser, the Netscape browser or the Mosaic browser came out what December, November of 93, right?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

I think is when

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Andreessen and crew sort of had that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And so that was a big game changer.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

I mean, in an interesting way, just as we were getting going on what was the client server wave, and it was clear that we were going to win it as well, we had the browser moment.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And so we had to adjust.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And we did a pretty good job of adjusting to it, right?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Because the browser was a new, I'd say, app model.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And we were able to embrace it with everything we did, right?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Whether it was HTML in Word or build a new thing called the browser ourselves and compete for it and then build a web server on our server stack and sort of go after it.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Except, of course, we missed...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

what turned out to be the biggest business model on the web, because we all assumed the web is all about being going to be distributed.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Who would have thought that search would be the biggest winner in organizing the web?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And so that's where we obviously didn't see it, and Google saw it and executed super well.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

So that's kind of one lesson learned for me is like, hey, you got to really not only get the tech trend right, you also have to get where is the value going to be created with that trend.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

And these business model shifts are probably tougher than even the tech trend changes.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Where is the value going to be created in AI?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

That's a great one.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

So I think the

Dwarkesh Podcast
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

the, at least in my current thing is, there are two places where I can say with some confidence.