A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months
THE SO WHAT
Putting an outsider in charge of Xbox and backing sweeping cuts this fast is a signal that even flagship consumer franchises are not exempt from hard P&L discipline. If you run an adjacent content or platform business, assume your counterpart may now be optimizing for margin and focus over empire size.
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