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Peggy Johnson

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first: 2015-09-23
most recent: 2015-09-23
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“Yeah, I think You know, a lot of my relationships have come in through the VC side. And so that's an interesting view because I take on much of their view, some of the early technologies they see, some of the early trends. I guess what I've seen is an opening up more. Everything doesn't begin and end here in the valley. There's actually... Curiosity from the valley looking out. And I think unusual.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, absolutely. And I felt that way when I was back at Qualcomm as well and I was looking after the Valley relationships. I feel like it's. It's imperative, and it's not really not just the valley, it's obviously innovation centers all over the world. And so we tap into all of those.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, we have a presence and my view is we need to just extend our points of contact in the valley. So we've always had a presence, obviously. But it's about me. We have a campus, yeah, but it's about being in the right conversations.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's something a bit magical there, and I think it just goes to show that communications are, the way we communicate will continue to change. I mean, look how they've changed in the past five years, go back ten years. So, you know, we shouldn't think it's going to stop right now with texting and email and instant messaging, right? We're going to be. Working in different ways, and so I guess the difference from our perspective is we want to be learners, and again, we want to get ahead of what's resonating with people so that we can make sure we're in the right space at the right time.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the productivity. We're going to talk more about that Well, productivity, I would say ease of use. I mean, that's another one. If we can make something easier to use, if we can make it seamless, if we can make the user more productive. By adding in that technology, then it's attractive to us. I mean, you know, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. And it really starts from that. So if we can Start from that statement and look at a variety of technologies and say, is this going to make someone be more productive? Is this going to make an organization be more productive? So it's all in the productivity area. It really is. I mean, that's really. So you're not doing MSN.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think what we're showing that we're not saying you have to, you know, like I said, snap to the grid, you can continue to have your culture. And in fact, we're inquisitive about that is something that companies see and can appreciate. So it hasn't really been a hindrance, I would say, right?”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Making products that were more useful for women and understanding, you know, what What women's needs are and how they're just slightly different. But if you can make a product, that includes a feature.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And basically, it's all about innovation, and we hold a lot of hackathons so people can, actually from all over, not just engineers. So you can get your finance, marketing people all coming together and ideating. And we've had some great output of that. We've had apps that have come out of that. We had a hack for her program that we had about 150 ideas out of that program just, you know.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You absolutely can, and so we're taking a fresh look at that as well. We have something at Microsoft called One Week. It's an internal employee program. We actually just finished it a month or so back.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, obviously, large companies are always looking for growth. And I think you can't. Just buy or build your way to growth. You have to look at everything. You have to look at all your tools, and that can include partnerships as well. So what gets you there? In this case, we looked at it. It was a small fast light team. It was very attractive as a compliance to office, and we brought it in and it just worked. If we had tried to build that ourselves, first of all, I don't know if we would have had that same perspective that Javier brought in. You know, it might have taken us a bit longer.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is our big driver. Yeah. More productive. And so we are looking for. Apps like that, that can be a great tuck in to the existing office that we have in place. And we can bring on things like WonderList, Sunrises, and other one as a calendaring app. And we're looking for ease of use, ease of discoverability.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think not only did we integrate the product quickly within the space of just a few months, it was back out branded and back out on the market. But we also integrated the team very quickly. And I think the entire team has, again, elements of its leader, Javier, in it. So the entire team is having sort of a halo effect on the different areas that they plugged into. And it's been good. It's been good for us all around.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think again it starts from the top down that it's okay to change. We're in a transformation, we're changing our culture. We talk about culture a lot at Microsoft. And so we're in the process. We know we have things to learn. People like Javier, we can learn from. And so that has been a very successful acquisition. And so we've made a number of other.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So a compli does the Outlook app for iOS and Android. And if you've ever used it, it's a beautiful app. It's very easy to use. And along with it came their CEO Javier Saltero, who's just an amazing, innovative thinker. And he came into the company. And what we tried to do, and I think successfully did, was bring him in and ensure that his creativity wasn't squelched. We didn't snap him to the Microsoft grid. We said, look. Come in, keep doing what you do. We want to learn from you. I mean, that's something that Satya talks about all the time. Be curious, be a learner, ask questions, be a listener. And Javier is now head of our entire outlook program, so not just an app on”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And perhaps it's the bigger ones that stand out. But if I always look at those as learning experiences, I mean, each one of them they've learned along the way and you can definitely put that back into your recipe as you continue forward. To me, what's most important is that we stay ahead of the trends, which means being deeply involved in the valley. So I go there to the valley very often I'm in town. Satch is here often. Most of our senior leadership team are running in another valley. I think we are.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, we definitely have a new view of partnerships. And I think, again, Satya's imprint on that, I mean, obviously Microsoft has had a partner network for forever, OEMs, ODMs. But acquisitions have been...”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really didn't. I didn't. I saw a company in transition and a leader who was a change agent And I thought, this is someone I can work for. And, I mean, to give all that up, that was a big step. I mean, I'm all in. I bought a house. We moved. We're there. I love Seattle. It's the new San Diego. So”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I don't know what made me say yes, I'll come up. But I was just curious. It was pure curiosity. And I went up that way. I got to meet many of the senior leadership team. Eventually met Satya. And, you know, his vision and his strategy to be the best productivity and services tool for your digital and your home and your work life, it struck a chord. I mean, he talked about being mobile first, cloud first, and it just, to me, coming from Qualcomm where we were looking at how to blend all of that world. It just resonated with me. And eventually when he asked if I would join his leadership team, I said, you had me at mobile. Were you worried a little bit?”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had just been kind of following YouTube's of him, conferences, things like that. Out of the blue, truly out of the blue, I got a call from Microsoft that said, Hey, we have a role that you might be interested in. And I have to tell you in 24 years, I have never answered a recruiter call. Just never. I was never going anywhere.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really, that's probably the biggest inflection point. I mean, Qualcomm had the store. They were downloading apps, but the creativity that Apple put into their store and the way that it all blended seamlessly between your phone and your desktop Mac, it was brilliant. And I think really that was the turning point where people said, wow, those things are pretty useful.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think in the beginning it was always all about voice and so people may maybe looked at the devices that's a voice device okay but my business is software I do this on PCs and so It was almost snuck up behind them because the processor got so powerful that you were able to basically access the internet, start to download large amounts of data. It made at some point it crossed the line where it became the useful device in your hand instead of having to be tethered.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I got to see that entire revolution. I remember way back in the beginning when we were first developing CDMA, co-division, multiple access. We didn't really know where it was going to go, and we thought, you know, it might replace maybe these mobile phone things might replace phone booths at some point and there might be a million or two million. I mean, we never envisioned. Literally, everyone would have one in their hands someday. So we got to see that whole rise, and we got to also play in the apps market. We had really the first App Store with Brew, and we were able to turn that into a... Into a business, the downloading of apps, which really before that hadn't been invented.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, my internship out of college was with General Electric, and I was born and raised in Southern California, went to San Diego State, and the job was going to be transferred to Syracuse, New York. And I just didn't think I could handle the snow in the winter. Yeah, basically just answered an ad for Qualcomm.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, my background is I spent 24 years at Qualcomm in a variety of roles. I'm an engineer by training. And I worked at different roles, program manager, and sales and marketing for a time, but I ended my last role there was head of their business development and marketing and also their internal incubator called Qualcomm Labs. Right.”
2015-09-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT