Microsoft's Satya Nadella 'is one of the great executives of our time': Reid Hoffman

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LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman discusses Microsoft CEO's Satya Nadella's leadership practices, and what he's learned from sitting on the Microsoft board.

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REID HOFFMAN: And Satya is, I think, one of the great executives of our time. I think the kind of ways that he's going-- look, Microsoft, obviously, has tons and tons of opportunity. How do you focus on building and taking what Satya calls, you know, borrowing from industry terms, [INAUDIBLE], et cetera-- growth psychology to earn your trust with your consumers, trust with your partners, and be very, very focused on that.

And so I think one of the things I've had the honor and pleasure of being on the Microsoft board working with him on this is to see, you know, kind of like, OK, we're gonna do X. We're gonna do Y. We're not gonna do Z. And we're gonna change these other things to being much more limited and focused in terms of how we're operating.

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