Microsoft CEO recalls a Bill Gates acquisition review that still haunts him

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently recalled a meeting with Bill Gates that still continues to haunt him. Speaking on the Confession with Ali Partovi podcast, Satya Nadella described a meeting from around 2008 or 2009, when he was running the business that would later become Bing. The meeting concerned an acquisition being considered by Microsoft's enterprise business. Nadella said that the meeting still ‘haunts’ him bn not because of the acquisition being discussed, but because he failed to speak up against a decision he believed was fundamentally flawed.“I remember another more consequential meeting. This was maybe 2008, 2009 maybe. Bill called a meeting. I was at that time running what became Bing later on.