and now satya nadella, my successor, is taking things to infinity and beyond if you will.mily: how do you feel being asked about your successes and your failures? what you are most proud of, what you are least proud of? steve: at this stage, i'm almost three years out. it's ancient history. did i have a lot of success? yeah. are there things i wish i had done differently? of course. i started a company that had about $2.5 million in revenue and 30 people, and i left a company that had $22 billion in profit, and i feel like net/net, pretty good success. emily: what is your relationship with bill like today? steve: we have kind of drifted apart. he has his life, and i have mine. microsoft was the thing that really bound us. we started off as friends but kind of got messed around with microsoft. since i have gone, we have drifted a little bit. emily: when you left, he left suddenly. what really happened? steve: it was definitely not a simple thing for either one of us. i think at the end of the day, probably two things -- a little bit of difference in opinion on the strategic

and now satya nadella, my successor, is taking things to infinity and beyond, if you will.mily: how do you feel being asked about your successes and your failures, what you are most proud of, what you are least proud of? steve: at this stage, i'm almost three years out. it's ancient history. did i have a lot of success? yeah. are there things i wish i had done differently? of course. i started a company that had about $2.5 million in revenue and 30 people, and i left a company that had $22 billion in profit, and i feel like net/net, pretty good success. emily: what is your relationship with bill like today? steve: we have kind of drifted apart. he has his life and i have mine. microsoft was the thing that really bound us. we started off as friends but not quite be mashed around microsoft, and since i have gone, we have drifted a little bit. emily: when you left, he left suddenly. what really happened? steve: it was definitely not a simple thing for either one of us. i think at the end of the day, probably two things -- a little bit of difference in opinion on the strategic

you see confidence from the marketplace in satya nadella and new business plan and model. it has healthy dividend investors like 2.4%. melissa: steve, speaking of satya nadella, he is one of the one that said with regard to president trump and pressure putting on companies to create jobs in the u.s., he said himself he is not nervous. he creates high-paying jobs in the u.s. do you buy that? >> i do. i think the technology industries are major, major job procedures in the united states. they produce a lot of things overseas and so much comes back in products that we produce. the other thing to keep in mind be the capital gains and dividend tax reduction, corporate tax rate reduction, they're going to have to increase the values of shares of the stocks of these companies. they will benefit tremendously from the business and capital-gains tax cut. melissa: yeah, that's true, lindsey, what do you think of that? >> no, i completely agree with that. it's definitely having trump, a pro-business guy in office, is going to benefit these tech companies tremendously and corporate ame

satya nadella continues to deliver for investors. the stock is rewarded.about the valuation now that microsoft is in growth mode? >> definitely. thank you for having us. so microsoft's a strong quarter on the back of not just the cloud business, which has been really pushing up the multiple for this stock, but really earnings came through on the other side as well. if you look through the fx noise, if you look through the linkedin acquisition, you saw microsoft core earnings growing 15%. that comes from gross margins starting to turn. you're starting to see op-excontinuing to be load. that's really what drives the stock from here on out is the earnings growth side of the equation which really came onboard last night. >> gene, let's hit some of the big political topics, certainly foreign exchange was harmful to paypal last night, has big remittance business. what are some of the trump policies? jn they got a lot of questions on border taxes, potential repatriation of foreign earnings, what do they mean for paypal and some of the other companies you follow?

for some like microsoft's satya nadella extremely personal, as an immigrant and ceo i've both experienced the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country and for the world. we will continue to advocate on this important topic. apple's ceo tim cook also responding telling his employees, i share your concerns, it is not a policy we support. other tech execs were even actively involved in the protests. for example, google co-founder who emigrated to the u.s. from the soviet union took part in protest at san francisco international airport. now, tech execs are working with trump, so it's possible they could have an impact on his thinking regarding this action. elon musk, rometty and kalanick all serve on the president's forum. kalanick will set up a fund, and for charging could have at airport while taxi drivers there sus penpended service, some cri charge uber trying to profit from that process, uber saying it had not intended breaking the strike. back to you. >> josh lipton, thank you. other ceos outside of tech are responding to the president's executive orders on