Technology companies have created huge inequalities by the fact you work in such profitable ways, and that money has been reinvested. It must make you uncomfortable that silican valley workers going to work on their busses are being egged by local residents who say, you've jacked up all the house prices, and i can't live here any more. In our case, it's existential a for us for there to be success outside of our balance sheet and income statement. We're not some middleman in some two sided market. Our entire thing is very straightforward. If there is value in what we create, you pay us. You will only pay us if you yourself are making money.
Satya Nadella is one of the world’s most inspirational business leaders; as much a humanist as a technologist and executive. In September 2017, he came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his personal journey from a childhood in India to becoming Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation with journalist and author Kamal Ahmed.
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