Inside Microsoft's Trillion Dollar Playbook with Chief Strategy Officer Bobby Yerramilli-Rao

The podcast explores Microsoft's strategic priorities, innovation, and the future of technology with Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Microsoft's Chief Strategy Officer. Bobby discusses identifying $0 trillion market opportunities and anticipating paradigm shifts, emphasizing that in tech, continuous vigilance is crucial due to constant disruption. He reflects on Microsoft's strategic inflection points, including successes in PCs and cloud services, and misses in search and mobile. The conversation covers Microsoft's approach to acquisitions, balancing integration with preserving the acquired company's core value, using LinkedIn and GitHub as examples. Bobby highlights AI's potential to add $20 trillion to global GDP over 20 years, dwarfing the impact of cloud or mobile, and touches on quantum computing's role in simulating chemistry for new materials and drug discovery.