Gurley argues most big companies that experience extended degrowth never return to glory, making Nadella an outlier.
“I think it's hard to put what Satya has accomplished in context because it's such an outlier To to go most companies, once they get big and have had an extended period of of degrowth, like where they really slow down, they never come back. Like, never they never get back to glory.”
Gurley says Nadella diagnosed Microsoft as a know-it-all culture and transformed it into a learn-it-all culture.
“And he said, he told everyone we're gonna change it from a know it all culture to a learn it all culture.”