Given his engineering background, I'd love to hear his thoughts on building products that actually solve problems. One of the real challenges in recent years seems to be the endless focus on shiny new things that make good 7 minute demos rather than working on existing products until they solve real problems. So many new features look promising but the teams then seem to lose interest in doing the rest of the work to make them truly functional. (That doesn't apply to all teams but it seems to be a common affliction).
I suppose what I'm getting at is that rather than chasing features, is there an interest in chasing the ability to solve problems end-to-end? Also, has he moved past wanting to build products to only wanting to build services? What balance is he aiming for? Does he see the company building software for sale five years from now or will everything be service-based? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 1:57 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: What would you ask Satya? If you had an opportunity to ask Satya Nadella a question in front of several thousand developers, what would you ask him?
