Chairman & CEO of MicrosoftChairman & CEO of Microsoft
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Turned Microsoft from a licensing business into a cloud-and-AI company, and made the 2019 OpenAI bet that reshaped the industry — $13B in, Azure as the exclusive compute layer, and Copilot pushed into every product surface. Engineer by background; his framing of AI as 'a new factor of production' rather than a feature has set how enterprises budget for it.
Turned Microsoft from a licensing business into a cloud-and-AI company, and made the 2019 OpenAI bet that reshaped the industry — $13B in, Azure as the exclusive compute layer, and Copilot pushed into every product surface. Engineer by background; his framing of AI as 'a new factor of production' rather than a feature has set how enterprises budget for it.