Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.