The genius of Satya Nadella | Sam Altman and Lex Fridman
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Guest bio: Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.
I joined Microsoft exactly a year before Ballmer left and Satya became CEO and then I worked there for 12 years. So I kind of rode along seeing the company transform through the years. Yes, Satya does seem like a visionary leader, executive and manager. He did change up nearly the entire senior leadership team (SLT) under him over the next few years after he became CEO. I think Scott Guthrie was the only EVP left standing from the Ballmer era. Maybe Brad Smith too. At any rate most of them were made to leave and he onboarded a new SLT that got behind him and his vision for the company. One of his biggest achievements I think was to get the different orgs talking to each other instead of competing with each other. He *really* sold the vision of “One Microsoft” right down to the rank and file (like me) and it felt like you were part of something big and that the company was a net positive for the world (though there is plenty that even the new Microsoft gets wrong I am sure) which I think is a key CEO responsibility.
Having a team with same vision is necessary
All this so that their wealth can go to the dude who dates Bill Gates daughters
"One of his biggest achievements I think was to get the different orgs talking to each other instead of competing with each other." - competition within is a malady that many big (at least IT) companies suffer from and may be only a leader who understands deep down can bring about that harmony & synergy within, not a surprise that Nadella would get that since he has worked for long.
@@krishna_o15 nah, team are slaves
@@asap5629then become a master, but am sure that you would also end up becoming a slave.
So when do we get Satya Nadella on the show? :-)
Yessss please
Never
Yes please! Awesome leader on an awesome show! I'm sure many would love to know how he thinks, and what he thinks about various things happening in the tech industry!
Why would he ruin his reputation?
Sam Altman pauses right after he starts his sentence like ChatGPT
He is one answering all our questions.
@@karanjakhar hahahahahaha
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It happens when you frequently have a conversation with Smartest people on the planet😅
Satya Nadella is one of the GOAT CEOs . A genius leader who grew the company 4 folds
4? More like 10 folds, from 300 B to 3 Trillion.
Altman saying "I'm a big Satya fan" is Itself enough for my cognitive bias to accept that he's one of the great CEOs of this century.
Lies again? Son Of Beach
Satya did great things for what was otherwise a huge drowning ship.
Describing Microsoft as a drowning ship might be the most delusional take Ive seen this week. Microsoft might very well be the most stable bigtech company with the most potential to grow. Their tools are the backbone of systems of almost all busineses and the fact that they will get to use the best NLM there is in their products is just the cherry on top..not to mention most PCs run and will run Windows. So no, if there is a bigtech company that is not a drowning ship its Microsoft as their products are omnipresent and essential for bussineses and homes.
PS: I missread and didnt notice the past tense, Im sorry, I missinterpreted what you said.
@@moon2schyzo Haha. NP.
@@moon2schyzo but do you agree that Microsoft were on the trajectory to become another IBM until Satya came along
@@aidilmubarock5394 Im not sure the uprising can be attributed to only one person nor that Microsoft was in that much of a terrible spot (but certainly not good) but of course I acknowledge how great of an impact he is and how much he helped the company, maybe not as miraculous and singlehanded carry as many people put it but still very impressive and one of the best leaders there is
Microsoft was never downing 🤣🤣
I think that Sam is exactly right about Satya Nadella that he is a leader with compassion and wisdom. There are great leaders like Elon Musk who ride on high horses and forget the kindness and compassion to their teams and lead by fear rather than by respect.
Satya and Elon name can never be taken in the same breath.
Nothing Wrong with Satya's style of leadership but I would anyway Prefer many Elon Musk's type. Elon Musk's is flamboyant and sometimes acts like a child but his technology is having a far superior impact (Spacex, starlink, Tesla) than Microsoft which has mostly riding its 90 success by scaling up to the new Public Cloud world.
@@lokeshgm7 youre right about that. MS hasnt done anything crazy innovative - just moved things from on-premise to cloud. Which was bound to happen - they were large enough to invest resources to ride the wave and get to where they are now.
People that work in Musk’s companies are not driven by fear. Misinformation.
This aged well
His pivots into cloud, office subscription and AI are quite GOAT visionary. I remember in 09 when Azure was just a baby. He really doubled down on the right product market fits, embraced open source, made MS products not proprietary or exclusive but intended it to work with multiple other software solutions. His direction worked so far and he's now powering the next generation of AI.
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Altman's genius is that he could still go around claiming OpenAI is 'open' 😉
It is no, isn't it?
@@pranitgandhi6832 It is partially. Many fear that will change with microsoft's influence and $$$ of course
I have to say many things about Nadella. Bill Gates has been my hero all the time because by the 90's he put computers closer to us, at least to low median-income people, you could not buy an Apple computer by that time. Nadella has been doing good things as well, following that route, he sits down with Linux, it was a great approach. Today we can have Microsoft products cheaper, but Open Source is still our vision.
Satya pays OpenAI's bills. He had only one way to answer that question.
They could probably get any company to fund for them.
Yes but he is also speaking the truth. I spoke to a buddy, a senior manager in MS and Satya is very hands-on, he even cares about implementation details of smaller projects in the company. He's popular and loved for a reason in his company.
Of course his is, he has been at Microsoft forever. He knows the company in and out.
Good snippet Lex
The genius of Satya is $10 billion.
No shit … you don’t need to be a AI company CEO to know that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you
yeah as simple as that
Have you considered Azure? It is the fastest-growing modern-day cloud platform.
Here for Satya!!
To be fair, what do you expect the guy who just essentially had his company bought by MSFT to say? He's only going to praise the new boss. It would be pretty dumb to take the MSFT investment and turn around to say their CEO doesn't know what he's doing.
So....he’s the opposite of Zuckerberg. Got it!
He has a bit of Steve Jobs risk taking confidence, and Bill Gates engineering genius
what are the 'engineering genius' contributions/outputs of Bill Gates?
@@masthan001 lulzz
@@ashred9665 Bill Gates was the richest, you don't get more engineering genius than that
Wouldn't be weird to not acclamate him?!
The genius of Satya is he has the three Scotts working for him in DevDiv
? means
Kevin Scott, Scott Guthrie, and who else ?
@@doubletrouble2283 Scott Nails - the top researcher in the Naughty America AI domain
@@doubletrouble2283 How can you forget Scott Hanselman !! :)
@@remcoros do you work in Microsoft usa ?
Ask the people he fired
When?👿
Buying ur competition is genius 😝
Microsoft stock growth happened because of cloud, which they started AFTER Amazon AWS. They had all the corporate clients, so it was easy for them to scale there.
Apart from that - purchase of stack exchange, github were probably with AI in mind - clearly a move that puts them ahead of the curve. OpenAI approaching Microsoft for an investment was pure luck. Wouldn't have happened if Elon didn't reneg on his $1B commitment, and leave them high and dry.
I'm not sure you're right here. Distribution is arguably the most important part of making sure a startup can survive. Especially nowadays where FAANG and the like can take on your company and eat your lunch... Microsoft, not Tesla, has the perfect mix of distribution and made them the perfect partner for OpenAI. I don't think it's luck. I think it would have happened regardless of the $1B because this company burns money due to processing needs. They made the decision to be a private company and steered away from being a non-profit like they initially wanted.
@@chrisn7847 Distribution is one component, not the only one. Kodak had great distribution, what happened to them? They were u-surped by facebook/instagram.
I am new to Lex’s channel. May be I am wrong but it seems for a talk show host he’s very low energy.
Monotone. Depressing overly inquisitive
Indians are every where in Silicon Valley
It's not easy to get in. I'm Indian and I failed twice or thrice. I moved out, i'm just not smart enough to work in Silicon Valley I guess. But i know classmates who scored less than me or used to study under me who made it into silicon valley. I guess luck and determination plays a part. Passion too. I just never cared about the left-wing culture much.
Satya and his company poured approximately 10B USD into OpenAI. Hence, the love, from the CEO if OpenAI. 😁 If you guys are so confident, make the code base open, i mean, open it up, for the rest of the world 😊. Like Elon first wanted.
Satya Nadella is one of the greatest CEOs in history
If Apple made a car, people would buy it. If windows made a car people would laugh at it.
Not everything is necessarily suited for Open Source, and it appears that Elon Musk's approach may also have a strong marketing component to it.
@@AFuller2020 🤡
Satya has won
he sounds like a robot
The Love and compassion part come from INDIA
Tech ofcourse American
As if Americans never had love and compassion. As if hatred doesn't exist in India at all where every other day there is some Hindu Muslim thing going on.
@@shivinunitholi2493 spot on
@@shivinunitholi2493 Satya Nadella is telugu . That Hindu Muslim nonsense doesn't happen in Telugu states
Of course, Tech is Indian-American(mostly), as well!!
@@shivinunitholi2493 I wouldn't call it a "Hindu Muslim thing". That would be like calling Nazism a "German Jewish thing".
It's quite clearly a situation where a Hindu majoritarian political movement is mobilizing in increasingly more violent ways against Muslims (and Christians) in India. It is religious cleansing and had been called one of the worst instances of ongoing religious persecution in the world presently.
Anyone who gives you 10 BILLION dollars is a 'Genius' lmaooo
With all due respects, Mr. Nadella is certainly a great CEO and leader that steered a flailing rocket ship from being decimated by competition and rapidly changing tech. We should give him credit for having a sharp eye to get out of bad businesses quickly. But I wouldn't call him a genius, which is reserved for extraordinarily brilliant people that created brand new products and markets. After all, Microsoft has always been an amazing copycat of proven businesses including cloud, collaboration, search, browser, gaming, and advertising let alone the flagship Windows o/s. As for getting the love of employees, all leaders are loved when the stock price keeps going up.
agreed. steve jobs was a genius, satya is not even close! job's resume is pretty impressive, forget the apple stuff - what about the stuff he achieved at pixar was something completely different from building computers.
@@user-jp7ni5xv1r Satya Nadella is a managerial genius
So is is a very smart businessperson, well respected, likable and looks at the long term, not genius though. It is rare to have a real genius. I also don't think Musk is a genius either.
Musk is GREAT at FUGAZI
FREE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
AND
A COLLOSAL JERK
HE IS NOT MY HERO
Exhibit A: Opinion
Nah, Musk is clearly a genius. As someone who studied physics, math, business, etc. I can tell you that Elon isn't full of shit. When he gets technical, the math all works out and he knows his formulas.
You can't have some random business guy out there pretending to know science for very long before getting exposed as a fraud.
The problem is, people just want to believe he's not a genius because they don't like him or believe he doesn't deserve credit, so they just fool themselves into thinking he's some sort of lucky guy who is at best a worse version of Steve Jobs. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I've worked for some truly horrible, involves bosses who thought they were God's gift to mankind. They were so stupid and arrogant that they all got in their own way enough to severely impact the business. There's no way a guy like Musk can be as involved in SpaceX and Tesla and not actually make the business worse if he's not actually a genius.
there are plenty of youtube channels and videos exposing Elon's technical skills and 'genius'.. In fact if you pay attention, it is surprising how vacuous he is.
Few examples :
- his text conversations revealed during court hearings
- idea for boring company
- idea for hyperloop
- the weight math of a Tesla truck
- his ideas for how mars can be made habitable with a nuclear explosion
- his replies on Dan Carin history podcast
- his understanding of tech wrt Twitter, where he tries to show off with tech terms he has no clue about that he probably heard in a presentation
- his short where he claims 'he has a deep understanding of how money works at a fundamental level' because of founding paypal
- his 'fighter jets era has passed' comment to a room full of pilots
There's a lot more. Trust me, the man isn't a fraction of what he makes himself out to be.
@@Phasma6969 , Just an opinion, you are correct.
Disagree. Microsoft products like Team, Visual Code, and Visual Studio are very bad. Innovate ? NO
VSC is bad?
@@vancedadder Yes. It hangs several times. Put too many things in registry. Keep asking to install software I've rejected, hard to configure.
@@bernaridho What alternative do you use then?
@@vancedadder Notepad++, Zoom, and NetBeans
Vsc bad 😂😂😂
Satya is not from this universe.
why does lex fridman always look depressed
lulz
Sam stutters soo much too early in his career. What would he be like in next 20 years. If we compare him apple to apple with Elon Musk.
We want ratan tata on show
why you guys try to indianize everything? So that you guys can come together and comment "I am proud to be Indian" or something in the similar context
@@piyush-singh you guys ?. With a Singh surname . Lol
@@VARMOT123 what? No one is to use "you guys" on their own countrymen?
@@piyush-singh What are you upto?
@@piyush-singh why are you crying??
This guy is 37, what does he know... You can see him winging hard.
nice guy but not necessarily a genius, Elon on the other hand...
Satya lost any respect I could possibly hold for him when he proudly declared "I want to make google dance". Given the known dangers of the AI arms race, it is borderline psychopathic behavior for him to so flippantly make it worse.
Indeed
I disagree. If the civilization doesn't move further, it will become extinct.
We humans are cursed with curiosity and knowledge. Therefore, we always have been exploring more and more. This is a problem no one can solve.
Yes I didn't like that too..
google is a true innovation company. ChatGPT and all other LLM built on technique called transformer is originally developed by google. google was more worried about reputation risk to ensure its AI product is ethical. No doubt it is good move by Satya to work with openAI which make Microsoft ahead in AI race for some time.
Not what he said. He said Google was the 800 lb gorilla, he has immense respect for them, but Microsoft has been trying to play catch up and innovate in search against the Google "monopoly". Now with New Microsoft Innovations, he hopes they can bring more competition to search & Google will want to innovate themselves & hopes people will know Microsoft was the one that got this monopoly to innovate ("dance").
If you lost respect for him because you think he exacerbated the potential dangers of AI by hurting Google's ego, that seems like a separate fundamentally human issue. But a company that has a monopoly on a market being made to innovate faster is good for capitalism, and it makes sense for the competing innovator to be proud of it.
How can Nadella be any type of genius??? Have you seen the country they come from??
@@icerise You people going to America and achieving success THERE does not show YOUR ability. It only shows the ability of the Americans to create a country with all infrastructure and everything else so people from undeveloped countries and come and achieve things. On you own you can't do any of this. So nothing to be proud of INDIVIDUALS.
@@icerise British invasions?? How can few thousand sailors invade a country with 200 million people?? Do I have to say the rest??
@@icerise Of course we judge people by their group. If not why have group identity at all??
@@icerise it's impossible to think as a species. So why do you call yourself INDIANS then. Why don't you give that up. Why don't you walk the talk and show us that you can do it.
I know you are pissed at the success of Indians who were born and more importantly raised and educated in India to conquer the corporate world. I want to feel sorry for you but frankly I just love seeing these Indians crushing egos of people like you 😂😂