Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the ‘one lesson he learned’ from Google

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has recently talked about a significant oversight: failing to anticipate the dominance of search as the web’s most successful business model, which Google capitalised on, and has said that it is “one lesson learned” for him.“We missed what turned out to be the biggest business model on the web, because we all assumed the web is all about being distributed,” he said during a recent podcast with Indian YouTuber Dwarkesh Patel.

“Who would have thought that search would be the biggest winner in organising the web? And so that’s where we obviously didn’t see it, and Google saw it and executed super well,” he added.