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?

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.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

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

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

You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.