Capítulo 781: Chapter 259: Motivation and Pressure

There are many lawsuits between large corporations that ordinary investors find dazzling and incomprehensible.

Mergers, acquisitions, antitrust, various patent litigations between companies can last over a decade.

Among them, there are even cases where many win the lawsuit but lose their lives.

In short, it’s basically impossible to understand the various games involved if you’re not at the table.

Even those sitting at the table cannot completely control everything. Otherwise, such things as winning a lawsuit but losing one’s life wouldn’t happen.

But this time, the situation is clearly different.

Those at the table have, under immense external pressure, rarely reached a consensus. This almost declares that anything happening next is normal.

So unfortunately, although achieving the effect Satya Nadella hoped for, with Qiao Yu stopping the broadcast within ten minutes, it was evidently not so easy to pass.

In fact, after Qiao Yu’s broadcast ended, Satya Nadella still did not rest. When he found that the global stock market still showed varying degrees of decline and the price of precious metals, especially physical gold, began to spike again, he realized he was in big trouble.

Yes, when the pressure like a mountain came rolling in, it ultimately fell upon this Indian elite.

There was no way around it, since this matter has been characterized as a provocation by Microsoft, someone must be held accountable. Clearly, there was no more suitable candidate than Satya Nadella.

A high-ranking Indian is not irreplaceable.

As for the sudden change in the high-tech company’s leadership potentially affecting Microsoft’s stock volatility, this was one of the costs Microsoft had to bear.

Someone had already argued strongly for Microsoft at the dining table, but it was unsuccessful.

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“Mr. Nadella, the company’s board of directors has just held an emergency meeting. According to the meeting’s results, it was decided to dismiss you as chairman of Microsoft’s board of directors and as CEO of Microsoft.

I, on behalf of Microsoft’s board of directors, deeply thank you for your more than ten years of hard and valuable contributions to the company. Unfortunately, the board of directors has decided to hold a decent farewell ceremony for you.”

At two o’clock in the morning, just as Satya Nadella dragged his tired body back to his big house, he received this call from the company secretary.

For a moment, Satya Nadella was not even able to fully react. Was he fired by the board so quickly?

It should be known that before today he was still the chairman of the board and was firmly in control of Microsoft’s board of directors.

“I can’t understand! If I remember correctly, I’m still the chairman of the board, and before I left the company, no emergency meeting was convened. This doesn’t conform to the company’s board meeting agenda scheduling regulations!”

Satya Nadella said fiercely, to him, this was a shameless betrayal.

Before leaving the Microsoft Headquarters Building, he was still the absolute ruler of this company. The fact that he was taken down just after arriving home was obviously unacceptable to him.

Even if he really had to be made the scapegoat, it should have gone through the normal company process, rather than being abruptly notified. This was not only impolite, but also felt like kind of an insult.

“We acted in accordance with Microsoft’s Company Charter and Delaware Corporation Law regulations. After causing significant losses to the company, if three board members submit a removal motion, an emergency board meeting can be convened.

All processes are guaranteed to be legal and compliant. And to be honest, Mr. Nadella, you are already unable to handle many of the issues the company is about to face. In fact, stepping down from this position now is a protection for you.

Of course… this is what the company’s founder, Mr. Bill Gates, asked me to convey to you. He also said that Microsoft will face difficult times ahead and requires more than just a leader with vision and management talent.”

Satya Nadella was silent.

To be honest, he always liked this specially hired executive secretary of the company.

Efficient, obedient, and most importantly, understood people. Knew who the boss was.

He was never stingy with giving this secretary some benefits.

But now Satya Nadella suddenly found such people were not so comforting. Because they always stood on the side of the victors and continued to be favored by the successful ones.

After a long time, Satya Nadella finally squeezed out a sentence: “I understand.”

“Okay, still hope you can come to handle the departure procedures on time tomorrow. The board hopes you can complete all handover work as soon as possible. The 8-K form will be submitted tomorrow.”

Satya Nadella couldn’t help but ask: “Then who will take over my position?”

“Mr. Bill Gates will temporarily take over as chairman. The CEO position will be held by Senior Vice President Mr. Kristin on an interim basis, and we will simultaneously recruit a new CEO globally.”

As expected, those real big figures always arranged everything seamlessly. He had thought he was irreplaceable, only to find he was still too naive.

The fact proved that no one in this world was irreplaceable. But what angered him the most was that these Angsa people showed no warmth whatsoever.

He had dedicated his whole life to Microsoft…

“Oh, right, there’s one more message I think I should tell you in advance. Given the significant losses your decisions have brought to the company, the board considers that this early termination won’t trigger any compensation clauses, and…”