[righthand]

By making big arguments to C-suite that were invested in the company’s direction. Same thing that happens in meetings where some dumbass says something like “we could build a cookie banner ourselves or pay Y company $12k/yr to run our cookie banner”. C-suite is full of these types of people that just make baseless arguments. Most management is not knowledgeable in their domain.

[dagmx]

Okay so your entire argument hinges on her having the ear of Satya , and out arguing Phil?

But even then you wouldn’t be able to deny that Xbox was floundering under Phil.

And for all of this you’d still be left with conjecture?

[markus_zhang]

Even if she did push him out, Phil only has himself to blame. After all he is the manager of Xbox. Xbox definitely did not do well.