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Kieran Snyder and the trouble with a single word
A linguist noticed what managers wrote about women. The question took Kieran Snyder from performance reviews to Textio, and eventually back to Microsoft with a different way of thinking about AI.
Vetri Vellore and the trouble with Monday morning
He built software for mentors, then for goals. After selling Ally.io to Microsoft, Vetri Vellore is pursuing the part of company life that a clear objective still cannot fix: getting through the week together.
David Risher and the trouble with good enough
A paper route, a locked library and a cancelled ride help explain Lyft’s CEO. David Risher has spent his career asking why things that almost work still let people down.
Ryan Nadel and the art of getting somewhere
From a newsroom comment queue to playground games and Microsoft AI, Ryan Nadel keeps returning to the same question: what does the technology help someone actually do?
Joe Duffy and the trouble with making things simple
He helped open .NET to the world, then left Microsoft to make cloud infrastructure programmable. At Pulumi, Joe Duffy keeps returning to a stubborn question: why should powerful computers require such painful tools?
Deepak Kumar and the art of getting out of the way
He helped design the machinery that manages corporate computers. At Adaptiva, Deepak Kumar has spent two decades trying to make that machinery demand less of the people who use it.
Anoop Gupta and the art of starting over
He helped put video on the web, advised Bill Gates, and built SeekOut around the people a résumé can miss. Now Anoop Gupta is making room for a different kind of growth.
LinkedIn made being findable a business.
A public résumé looks simple. Put 1.3 billion professionals behind it, and you get a market for hiring, selling, learning, and being discovered.
Skype made distance cheap. Staying useful cost more.
Skype made a call across an ocean feel ordinary. Its rise, expensive changes of ownership, and final move to Teams reveal how easily a simple idea can become complicated.
Tript Singh Lamba’s theory of the dropped ball
After Microsoft, Google and Expedia, Tript Singh Lamba built ProductNow with an intern and a question: why does so much work disappear between a decision and its delivery?
Samir Bodas and the promises after the signature
Samir Bodas built Icertis around the business hidden inside contracts. His own test was just as practical: could a growing company keep the promises it made to its people?
Before the breakthrough, someone got curious.
Behind the Tech puts a microphone in front of the people who built our digital world. Microsoft’s Kevin Scott wants to know what made them start.
Varun Tandon and the work before the road
Before a city can change a street, someone has to make a plan. Varun Tandon, co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Transit, is bringing his Microsoft AI experience to that long, consequential prelude.
Vineet Rao and the small basket that became a billion-dollar bet
After a decade building software at Microsoft, Vineet Rao co-founded DealShare around a different customer: the household watching every rupee. A WhatsApp experiment in Jaipur became a venture-backed grocery business, then faced the harder arithmetic of scale.
Black & Veatch Says Microsoft Copilot Gives Back Nine Hours
The century-old engineering firm reports roughly nine hours saved per Copilot user each week. Behind that claim is a bigger bet on keeping expertise alive—and buying much more than a chatbot.
Microsoft Brings AMD Helios to Azure With Three Jobs to Do
Helios gets the spotlight, but Microsoft’s Azure plan has three distinct jobs: prepare the data, design the chips and serve the answers. AMD is both a supplier and a customer in the loop.
Microsoft Azure Joins the $100 Billion Club as Xbox Shrinks
Azure cleared $100 billion in annual revenue and Microsoft 365 Copilot passed 30 million paid seats. Across the same empire, Xbox content and services revenue fell 10% in the fourth quarter.
NetImpact Strategies and the Art of Keeping the Old Machine Running
Government software rarely gets the luxury of a clean slate. NetImpact Strategies has built a business around the less glamorous question: what can you improve while the mission keeps moving?
Microsoft Copilot Wants a Job, Not Another Prompt
Home makes the files, Code makes the apps, and Autopilot keeps working after you leave. Microsoft’s new Copilot turns delegation into a product—and ongoing work into a running bill.
Darshdeep Hora and the Last 22 Percent
The engineer's revealing work is not the first 80 percent an AI can do. It is the stubborn remainder where judgment, trust, and one wrong customer name can undo everything.
Alex Hinrichs and the Fine Art of Making Chaos Keep a Deadline
He helped ship operating systems, a phone, and the first HoloLens. His durable invention may be simpler: write the problem down, name an owner, and decide before the room goes stale.
Joel Grossman and the Long Art of Answering the Call
He began with an empty desk and helped build one company to a $220 million exit. At Numa, Joel Grossman is applying the same patient operating logic to the ringing phones, missed messages and frayed handoffs of the modern car dealership.
Laura Norman Makes the Complicated Move
At Datadog, she helps a large marketing organization find its rhythm. In San Francisco, she spent years helping a small park find its future. Laura Norman's career is a study in turning many voices into forward motion.
Chirag Dhull Has Spent a Career Making the Complicated Clear
From Azure Machine Learning to blockchain oracles and governed AI, Collibra's CMO has built a career around a deceptively hard skill: explaining new infrastructure before the market has settled on the words.
David Hamilton Learned AI Before It Was Fashionable. Then He Spent 30 Years Making Technology Useful.
Long before artificial intelligence became a boardroom refrain, David Hamilton studied how machines and minds make sense of the world. Today, the SAP Concur CMO applies that old curiosity to a very practical brief: turning complicated enterprise technology into decisions people can use.
Tim McDonough Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Technology Mean Something
From a desktop carried in an L.L.Bean tote to AI agents at enterprise scale, Tim McDonough’s career is a study in translating difficult technology into stories customers can use - and CFOs can believe.
Suzanne Behrens Spent 30 Years Making Government Technology Feel Human
She helped scale Microsoft's public-sector business from $100 million to more than $3 billion, then spent her final CMO chapter replacing mass marketing with precision. Her enduring idea is simpler than the software: sales and marketing should share the work, the numbers, and the consequences.
Paul Warn Is Building Marketing for the AI-First Era
After Microsoft, Qualtrics and Zendesk, Paul Warn arrived at Garner Health with a practical brief: turn data, urgency and AI into a marketing organization built to learn quickly.
Eli Schleifer Wants to Make Waiting for Code Feel Obsolete
After Microsoft, a startup sale to Google, and the machinery of Uber ATG, the Trunk founder has settled on a stubborn idea: growing software teams should not have to grow slower.
Jason Bunge Is Teaching Old Toys New Tricks
After selling software, houses, video games and virtual worlds, Jason Bunge landed at Hasbro with a precise brief: find the center of gravity in brands people have loved for generations - then give every fan a reason to keep playing.