
Guest
Asha Sharma
EVP & CEO, Xbox
Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Asha Sharma (EVP & CEO, Xbox) talking, from an interview on Lenny's Podcast published Aug 28, 2025.
What Asha Sharma said
AI winners move from adoption to measurable growth
“And we saw a massive difference from when we used, you know, synthetic fine tuning to when we annotated 600,000 patient physician interactions by experts”
Asha Sharma15:25 Agents could turn org charts into work charts
“And so I think that when all of that happens, the work chart, the org chart starts to become the work chart.”
Asha Sharma21:44 Microsoft plans around seasons, not fixed roadmaps
“And so a season, which is very uncomfortable, can be denoted by a set of secular changes that are happening in the industry or that are happening from customers.”
Asha Sharma31:26 Post-training could draw more investment than pre-training
“Like, I believe we will see, you know, just as much money spent on post-training as we will on pre-training and in the future more on post-training.”
Asha Sharma44:57 AI products are becoming living feedback loops
“Because these models are so effective at this point, you want to start to tune them to certain types of outcomes, whether it's price or performance or quality.”
Asha Sharma5:47 Platforms win through foundational systems, not feature count
“And the single most important thing that we could have done and did during my time there was create a matching platform”
Asha Sharma36:43 AI interfaces are shifting toward composability
“I think that there's a bunch of trends that are kind of working in the favor for like the future of products being about composability and not the canvas.”
Asha Sharma17:09 Satya Nadella uses optimism to renew team commitment
“I've learned that optimism is a renewable resource.”
Asha Sharma39:46
