No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.
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