Articles by S. 'Soma' Somasegar

S. “Soma” Somasegar, Madrona managing director, led Microsoft's Developer Division as part of his 27-year tenure at the company. He has led Madrona’s investments in Snowflake, UIPath, Pulumi, Common Room and Statsig, among others.

Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

by S. 'Soma' Somasegar on March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 at 10:36 am

Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. “Soma” Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group and a former Microsoft executive. GeekWire occasionally runs opinion and analysis… Read More

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

by S. 'Soma' Somasegar on February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 at 7:02 am

When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end… Read More

3 types of ‘intelligent applications’ that get investors excited

by S. 'Soma' Somasegar & Daniel Li on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 at 6:50 am

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by S. Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group; and Daniel Li, principal at Madrona Venture Group. Artificial intelligence is a broad… Read More

Guest post: The biggest trends at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference

by S. 'Soma' Somasegar & Tim Porter on December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 at 12:21 pm

The momentum continues to build and scale in leaps and bounds. That was the overwhelming observation and feeling at the end of the fifth annual conference that Amazon hosted in… Read More

Commentary: The 5 things I learned from my first 100 days as a venture capitalist

by S. 'Soma' Somasegar on March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 at 2:50 pm

Over the last 10 years, I had been doing — or should I say dabbling in — angel investing. With time and some hard knocks, I ended up with a… Read More

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

3 types of ‘intelligent applications’ that get investors excited

Guest post: The biggest trends at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference

Commentary: The 5 things I learned from my first 100 days as a venture capitalist