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Beyond the Blue Badge — 100 episodes

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1

Azure Rising

2

Building community

3

Changing the world

4

Riding the Internet Tidal Wave

5

The Birth of Microsoft Research

6

The Game Changer

7

Going global

8

Seizing opportunities

9

Best of Beyond the Blue Badge

10

Driving innovation with David Risher | Part 2

11

Driving innovation with David Risher | Part 1

12

Making your network count with Ken Horenstein

13

From leader to advisor with Kevin Ackhurst

14

Mobilizing startups with Tom Button

15

Changing career lanes with Benjamin Tan

16

Propelling growth with Melissa Mulholland

17

Opening doors with Sriram Krishnan

18

From techie to generalist with Kenneth Rivera

19

Durable happiness with Krishnan Iyer

20

Navigating startups with Dan Shapiro

21

Rise of Vietnam with David Do

22

Demystifying the First Lady with Joanne Harrell

23

Turning the lights back on with Mteto Nyati

24

From ideas to startups with Prasanna (Sankar) Sankaranarayanan

25

Online safety with Julie Inman-Grant

26

Unlocking potential with Jan Muhlfeit

27

Data-driven outcomes with John Kahan

28

Intentional service with Steve Guggenheimer

29

Corporate investing with Adam Coccari

30

Global Opportunities with Eriko Asai

31

Growth by Choice with Haresh Khoobchandani

32

Leadership Lessons with Jeff Raikes - Part 3 Philanthropy, Entrepreneurship and baseball

33

Leadership Lessons with Jeff Raikes — Part 2 Identifying and acting on opportunities

34

Leadership Lessons with Jeff Raikes — Part 1 Early learnings from early Microsoft

35

Evangelizing technology with Robert Scoble

36

Not taking 'No' for an answer with Nicola Hodson

37

Hallucinating the future with Rahul Sood

38

Transitioning from global to local with Rajiv Kaul

39

Putting people before tech with Julie Larson-Green

40

Advice to entrepreneurs with Soma

41

Lessons in leadership with Steve Vamos

42

Be bold with Nickie Smith

43

Chasing innovation with Francis deSouza

44

Saving the ocean with Kimberly Mathisen

45

Preserving history with Tom Ikeda

46

Adaptive leadership with Neil Holloway

47

Activate allyship with Gavriella Schuster

48

Unlocking startup success with Robert Wahbe

49

Unlocking opportunity with Mohit Bhende

50

Investing in innovation with Bindi Karia

51

Mentorship matters with Alonda Williams

52

Leadership evolution with Joe Levy

53

Partnership principles with Adam Warby

54

Creating great company culture with Anoop Gupta

55

Diversifying the pipeline with Cody Horton

56

Sustainable finance with Richard Peers

57

Intentional environmentalism with Kathleen Hebert

58

Better together with Susan Koehler

59

Embracing discomfort with John Mangelaars

60

Creating Convoy with Dan Lewis

61

Dissecting diversity data with Allie Attenwoode

62

Startup secrets with Eugenio Pace

63

Replay: Trish Millines Dziko

64

Building upstream change with Ross Hunter

65

Becoming a game-changer with Ed Fries

66

Advocating for disability inclusion with Mylene Padolina

67

Breaking barriers with Daniela Braga

68

Building community bridges with Chris King

69

Driving impact with former Xbox VP J Allard

70

Empowering the underestimated with Jose Pinero

71

Ending poverty through entrepreneurship with Dianne Calvi

72

Using data to save lives with Terry Myerson

73

Reflecting on Xbox with Robbie Bach

74

Giving forward with Charles Stevens

75

Creating access for all with Njideka Harry

76

Entrepreneurship in China with Kai-Fu Lee

77

Disrupting from the inside with Orlando Ayala

78

Bridging the gender digital divide with S. Revi Sterling

79

Mentoring for results with Jon Browning

80

Wrangling a unicorn with Manny Medina (Pt. 2)

81

Wrangling a unicorn with Manny Medina

82

Just the facts with Steve Ballmer

83

Service beyond country with Sean Kelley

84

Becoming a great ally with Terri Cole

85

Words matter with Textio Co-founder Kieran Snyder

86

Women in Tech with JoAnne Kennedy

87

Brewing Up Intentional Diversity with Rodney Hines

88

Developing True Grit with Shannon Huffman Polson

89

Eliminating inequity through education with Reggie Brown

90

Founder to Financier with Kai Bond

91

Envisioning Windows 95 (Pt. 2) with Brad Silverberg

92

Envisioning Windows 95 (Pt. 1) with Brad Silverberg

93

Culture is everything! Using transparency and data to create a new era of company culture with Glassdoor Chairman Robert Hohman

94

Why youth empowerment is crucial with Ravi Venkatesan

95

Fundraising in a time of COVID-19

96

Marketing Windows 95

97

Pivot!

98

Environment + Activism

99

Starting up your startup

100

Building Windows 95