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Satya Nadella

Microsoft

2014–present

CEO of Microsoft since 2014. Operates with unusual discipline on written communication; most surviving internal memos surface through press leaks rather than litigation.

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Satya Nadella ·Microsoft ·13 OCT 2023

Nadella's Activision Memo Was Written for an Audience of One: the Press

Read this memo as a brief to Microsoft employees and it is bland. Read it as a brief to regulators, courts, and reporters and it is meticulous.

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