Thursday, March 12, 2009
Microsoft’s Man in Silicon Valley, Dan’l Lewin, Speaks!
A few weeks ago, BoomTown had lunch at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View with Dan’l Lewin, the software giant’s corporate VP for strategic and emerging business development.
In other words, Microsoft’s friendly face in the Valley, in charge of its operations there, which has about 2,000 employees.
Most of them work for other Microsoft divisions, leaving Lewin primarily responsible for the company’s relationships with start-ups, venture capitalists and industry partners.
In other words, hoping that Google now seems scarier than Microsoft used to be.
Here’s a video interview with him about all that and more.
