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123 124 125 126 </head> 127 <body class="no-header-page wsite-page-about full-width-body-off header-overlay-on alt-nav-off wsite-theme-light"><div class="wrapper"> 128 <div class="birdseye-header"> 129 <div class="nav-wrap"> 130 <div class="container"> 131 <div class="logo"><span class="wsite-logo"> 132 133 <a href="/"> 134 135 <span id="wsite-title">Learning by Shipping</span> 136 137 </a> 138 139</span></div> 140 <div class="nav desktop-nav"><ul class="wsite-menu-default"> 141 <li id="pg362343892575010001" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 142 <a 143 href="/" 144 class="wsite-menu-item" 145 > 146 Home 147 </a> 148 149 </li> 150 <li id="active" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 151 <a 152 href="/about.html" 153 class="wsite-menu-item" 154 > 155 About 156 </a> 157 158 </li> 159 <li id="pg665310581264832470" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 160 <a 161 href="/contact.html" 162 class="wsite-menu-item" 163 > 164 Contact 165 </a> 166 167 </li> 168</ul> 169</div> 170 <a class="hamburger" aria-label="Menu" href="#"><span></span></a> 171 </div> 172 </div> 173 </div> 174 175 <div class="main-wrap"> 176 <div id="wsite-content" class="wsite-elements wsite-not-footer"> 177 <div class="wsite-section-wrap"> 178 <div class="wsite-section wsite-body-section wsite-background-22" style="height: auto;" > 179 <div class="wsite-section-content"> 180 <div class="container"> 181 <div class="wsite-section-elements"> 182 <span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:414px'></span><span style='display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:20px;*margin-top:40px'><a href='/uploads/1/3/5/1/135154266/steven_sinofsky.jpg'><img src="/uploads/1/3/5/1/135154266/published/headshot.jpg?1609020295" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%" alt="Headshot" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> 183<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;">My name is Steven Sinofsky. I worked at Microsoft for more than two decades and had the good fortune to work on all the major businesses of the company through a period of rapid growth of not just Microsoft, but the entire PC industry. I've learned many lessons along the way and hope to share them in the writing I've done over the years.<br /><br />I've been writing on public blogs for more than 20 years, 35 years if you include all my USENET comp.lang.c++ debates with our good friends at Borland. This site brings together all the places I've written so you can easily find them and get to know what is available where. I like writing and often say <a href="https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/writing-is-thinking-an-annotated-twitter-thread-2a75fe07fade" target="_blank">Writing Is Thinking</a>. <br /><br />Today I am mostly focused on Silicon Valley companies (and also Seattle) where I work with many startups and big companies, sharing lessons whenever I can, but also investing, advising, and serving on boards.<br /><br />My <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/sinofsky" target="_blank">LinkedIn profile</a> is mostly up to date. There's a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky" target="_blank">Wikipedia page</a> about me that I find amusing. I primarily hang out on <a href="http://x.com/stevesi" target="_blank">X</a>, but also appear on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/learningbyshipping.com" target="_blank">Blue Sky</a> and <a href="https://www.threads.net/@stevesi" target="_blank">Threads</a>.<br /><br />A formal bio follows:<br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">A respected technologist and business leader, Steven Sinofsky is an investor, adviser, teacher, and writer. He began his career at Microsoft in 1989. Sinofsky joined Microsoft fresh out of graduate school as a software engineer when only one in ten U. S. households had a PC, almost no one had email, and the internet as we know it had not yet been conceived. Starting in Development Tools, Sinofsky worked on the first version of the new programming language C++ for the nascent Windows platform. He was Bill Gates’ Technical Assistant during the development of Windows 95 and Windows NT, and the rise of Internet as we know it today. He then joined the newly formed Office Product Unit and for twelve years and six releases, rose to senior vice president leading all of Office product development. Sinofsky was tapped to bring order, and innovation, to the Windows division as president. He served as President of the Windows division through 2012, delivering two major releases of Windows, Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as the creation of Microsoft Surface, and online services such as Outlook.com and OneDrive.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">Sinofsky frequently comments on products, development and management at his Learning by Shipping Medium, as a LinkedIn Influencer, and on Twitter @stevesi.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">
183Sinofsky was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. He lived in China working for Microsoft. He traveled extensively through Asia and Africa learning about society and technology in poor and rural areas.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">He earned a Bachelor of Arts in both computer science and chemistry from Cornell and a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">His most recent book is currently being serialized on Substack, Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution, a first-person account of his time starting at Microsoft as he grew with the company working on many of leading products of the era.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)">With Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Sinofsky co-authored his first book </span><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/One-Strategy-Organization-Planning-Decision-ebook/dp/B002XXGIJY" target="_blank">One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making</a><span style="color:rgb(98, 98, 98)"> (Wiley, 2009), a compendium of blog posts authored internally at Microsoft during the creation of Windows 7 combined with context and analysis by Iansiti. </span></font></div> 184<hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr> 185 </div> 186 </div> 187 </div> 188 189 </div> 190</div> 191<div class="wsite-section-wrap"> 192 <div class="wsite-section wsite-body-section wsite-background-4" style="height: auto;" > 193 <div class="wsite-section-content"> 194 <div class="container"> 195 <div class="wsite-section-elements"> 196 197 </div> 198 </div> 199 </div> 200 201 </div> 202</div> 203 204</div> 205 206 </div> 207 208 <div class="footer-wrap"> 209 <div class="container"> 210 <div class="footer"><div class='wsite-elements wsite-footer'> 211<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:right;">Copyright 2020-2021. All Rights Reserved. Learning By Shipping LLC</div></div></div> 212 </div><!-- end container --> 213 </div><!-- end footer-wrap --> 214 </div><!-- /.wrapper --> 215 216 <div id="navMobile" class="nav mobile-nav"> 217 <a class="hamburger" aria-label="Menu" href="#"><span></span></a> 218 <ul class="wsite-menu-default"> 219 <li id="pg362343892575010001" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 220 <a 221 href="/" 222 class="wsite-menu-item" 223 > 224 Home 225 </a> 226 227 </li> 228 <li id="active" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 229 <a 230 href="/about.html" 231 class="wsite-menu-item" 232 > 233 About 234 </a> 235 236 </li> 237 <li id="pg665310581264832470" class="wsite-menu-item-wrap"> 238 <a 239 href="/contact.html" 240 class="wsite-menu-item" 241 > 242 Contact 243 </a> 244 245 </li> 246 </ul> 247 </div> 248 249
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