Gerstner says Nadella predicted fifteen years before ChatGPT that Microsoft needed answers, not links, to beat Google.
“Fifteen years before ChatGPT started producing answers, Satya knew that that's where they had to get to if they were going to leapfrog Google.”
Gerstner recounts that Satya Nadella bought his company Faircast for Microsoft in 2008 when running Bing.
“The person who bought Ferricast in 2008 for Microsoft was Satya Nadella. Oh, He was running Bing at the time. Right.”
Gerstner recounts Satya Nadella saying most applications are just interfaces on CRUD databases, which Benioff disputed.
“When Satya came on our pod and he said that, you know, that at the end of the day, most applications are just consumer interfaces sitting on top of a CRUD database and, you know, Mark Benioff calls me and he's like, you know, that's not true.”