Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned employees not to build a gold toilet
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Microsofts finance chief advised employees not to "build a gold toilet" during a 2018 meeting, according to emails that came up during federal court hearings last month over the software makers planned Activision Blizzard acquisition. The quip might invoke a 2016 social-media claim (proven false by Snopes) that former President Donald Trump owned a solid gold toilet. Whatever inspired it, the reference seems to highlight the potential for richly valued technology companies to build products just because they can, ignoring the likelihood that they wont resonate with many customers. "Amys words from the meeting in the Fall still ring in my ears - dont build a gold toilet," vice president Catherine Gluckstein wrote in a February 2019 email to Phil Spencer, CEO of gaming at Microsoft. Spencer wrote in reply that mobile gamers dont necessarily want to play a hardcore game such as Halo on their phones while using an Xbox controller over Bluetooth.
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