LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT IN FINTECH
“ I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified . Every risk I took built confidence ”
AMY HOOD , CFO , MICROSOFT
Since 2017 , she has also lent her expertise to the board of directors at Fortune 500 tech company 3M .
Amy ’ s pay package for fiscal year 2024 rose to US $ 25.8m , an increase of 30 % from a year earlier , according to a regulatory filing . Amy currently lives with her two children and husband in Seattle , Washington . She and her partner , along with Satya and his wife Anupama , are all minority owners of soccer team Seattle Sounders FC .
‘ DO NOT BUILD A GOLD TOILET ’ According to CNBC , Amy once advised colleagues not to “ build a gold toilet ” in a meeting , referring to the tendency of wealthy tech companies to develop products for the sake of it , rather than meet a customer ’ s needs .
Amy ’ s strategy appears to be to stay ahead of the curve and adapt to changing market conditions , but , more crucially , to refuse to blindly follow the competition .
Seeing the trend away from one-off software sales to Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ), she shifted the company ’ s focus towards subscriptions and has redirected funds from developing more of Microsoft ’ s hardware into its growing cloud computing division , believing that this was where it is better spent .
Moves such as the US $ 26bn acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 appeared bold and needed significant investment , but have paid off in the long term .
In terms of work culture , Amy is reported as telling new recruits around six years ago that her role is not just
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