Skype Actually Does Get A Fair Bit

Good Developers Like Seeing Their Products Sell In Large Quantities. They Enjoy The Competition Of Doing A Better Job Than The Other Company, Especially If The Other Company Has More People On The Project And They're Entrenched And People Are Saying That We Don't Have A Chance Of Getting In There And... And Doing Well.

Microsoft Is Always Two Years Away From Failure.

When You Lose A Customer, It Can Be Tempting To Tell Each Other, "that Customer's Not Very Sharp. They Just Made The Wrong Decision".

Leaders Are Those Who Empower Others.

We Paired This Announcement Of The R&d [commitment] With The So-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Which Is 27 [major Investors] Saying, "hey, We'll Put Significant Money Into [energy Innovations] When They're Ready To Spin Out Probably Into Startup Companies."