Satya signed off on the plan. Then he turned to everyone and added a new requirement. “As long as we’re going to spend all the time and money to make these changes, I want to do this for more than ourselves,” he said. “I want every new feature that’s available for our use as a first party to be available for our customers to use as a third party.” In other words, create technology that could be used by every customer to comply with the GDPR. Especially in a data-dominant world, it made complete sense. But it also added more work. All the engineers in the room gulped. They left the meeting
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