alt Hacker News> he has filled Microsoft with average people. The best fresh graduates from the top colleges went to Google and Facebook in the last decade
Is there a way to demonstrate that this actually mattered? That paying more did get them “better” talent that actually made a difference? Ie. not any self serving “they did because they’re better and they’re better because they were paid more.”
Look at AI. Microsoft was an early leader in AI but that was only because of their investment in OpenAI. What has Microsoft done in AI since then? Is anyone excited about Copilot? Look at what Google has done since then. Lots of interesting stuff. Only recently has Microsoft released something interesting: Mustafa Suleyman released the company’s first model trained internally from start to finish [1].
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/microsoft-tests-mai-1-previe...