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 some 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 kind of the thing that really bound us. we started off as friends but really quite got mashed around at 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 opin