{"id":1043695,"date":"2026-10-15T11:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043695"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:39:42","slug":"microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-remembers-the-review-of-an-acquisition-he-sat-through-with-bill-gates-that-still-haunts-him-says-i-got-out-of-the-meeting-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-remembers-the-review-of-an-acquisition-he-sat-through-with-bill-gates-that-still-haunts-him-says-i-got-out-of-the-meeting-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella &#8216;remembers&#8217; the review of an acquisition he sat through with Bill Gates that still haunts him; says: I got out of the meeting thinking &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently recalled a meeting with Bill Gates that still continues to haunt him. Speaking on the Confession with Ali Partovi podcast, Satya Nadella described a meeting from around 2008 or 2009, when he was running the business that would later become Bing. The meeting concerned an acquisition being considered by Microsoft&#8217;s enterprise business. Nadella said that the meeting still \u2018haunts\u2019 him bn not because of the acquisition being discussed, but because he failed to speak up against a decision he believed was fundamentally flawed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently recalled a meeting with Bill Gates that still continues to haunt him. Speaking on the Confession with Ali Partovi podcast, Satya Nadella described a meeting from around 2008 or 2009, when he was running the business that would later become Bing. The meeting concerned an acquisition being considered by Microsoft&#8217;s enterprise business. Nadella said that the meeting still \u2018haunts\u2019 him bn not because of the acquisition being discussed, but because he failed to speak up against a decision he believed was fundamentally flawed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043698,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043695\/revisions\/1043698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}