I found the episode very enlightening, and learned a lot as well as unlearned a few things that I thought I had known.

I never realized how much of azure was him early on.' I didn't realize the tension between him and Bill, always assumed those two were thick as thieves, all the time. I super respect him for stepping down so that the company can change in the way it needs to, and also so wall street would realize a change has happened (which was around spending discipline vs. investments, and giving forward guidance, etc)

I left this episode with a lot more respect for him as a person and saw him much more introspective and up front that I would have imagined based on what I thought I knew before.

Also, a formerly favorite phrase of saying "we're in the Ballmer era at X company" is struck from my vocabularly, since in most places I've used it, it's meant to be an insult to the company, however it's really just an insult to Ballmer. He was way more intuned than many others.