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Internal Communications and Teamwork are two really important topics and who better to discuss them with than the Microsoft Insiders: Jeremiah Marble and Dona Sarkar Jeremiah Marble and Dona Sarkar from Microsoft were such inspirational guests. This episode was really fun to record and we packed in so much information into this it is insane... Jeremiah is Director of Developer Marketing for Windows and was the founder of the windows insider program with well over 16 Million members. Dona Sarkar is Head of the Insider Program at Microsoft -You know how everyone calls you for tech help like "which laptop should I get" or "do I need anti-virus" The Windows Insiders are a community of 16M+ people who constantly get asked those questions. Currently, with her amazing team they are co-creating products and services with these curious, passionate learners to fulfill their mission: to empower EVERY person on the planet to achieve more--that especially includes the next 5 billion under served people all over the world. Jeremiah Marble on Twitter https://twitter.com/jeremiahmarble?lang=en Dona Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dona_Sarkar Another useful Episode Here : Visual Communications and Career Management from Startup to Canadian Government with Ana Lissansky – Episode 44 Dona Sarkar TedX covers banishing imposter syndrome:- Now let's dig into this amazing episode! WARNING — AI Transcriptions Below May Cause Grammatically Correct People Serious Stress and Lack of Sleep! Nathaniel Schooler 0:10 Today, I'm interviewing Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble. Both are from Microsoft. And Jeremiah started the insider program over there. And now Dona actually runs it. So it's very interesting. Well, it's really great to be joined by you both. Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble 0:40 Thank you so much. So Awesome. Nathaniel Schooler 0:45 Cool. So you're Jeremiah. And your is it Dooona? Dona Sarkar 0:49 It's pronounced Donna. Nathaniel Schooler 0:50 Donna it is Donna. I'm not sure as I wasn't sure. Because of the because of the spelling of your name you see. Dona Sarkar 0:55 More efficient this way for all you nerds! Nathaniel Schooler 1:02 You can call me a nerd. I'm quite geeky. Yeah, I can't program but I am quite geeky. Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble 1:11 You say that but that is not true we can teach you! Nathaniel Schooler 1:14 I would like to learn but.... Dona Sarkar 1:17 We've got a candidate Jeremiah Marble 1:18 Have a candidate. Nathaniel Schooler 1:20 I'm just not sure to be honest. Dona Sarkar 1:30 We will make you do the thing Nathaniel Schooler My friend he's built me a new machine, my new Windows machine. He's been hassling me for ages to learn. Dona Sarkar 1:30 Find a new victim. Jeremiah Marble 1:36 The World of coding. Dona Sarkar 1:37 Oh, yeah. It's magical, magical! Nathaniel Schooler 1:39 So so you guys both run that you've created the Windows Insider program, right? Dona Sarkar 1:45 Well, actually, Jeremiah, and someone else started the Windows Insider program.About five years ago, it'll be five years in October. He started and ran it for like, what, four years? Jeremiah Marble 1:57 So about four years. Dona Sarkar 1:57 And then I came on board about two and a half year years ago. But the starting of the program, he should tell that story because I was not there. Jeremiah Marble 2:04 So we started out life is essentially an attempt to get lots and lots of data in the guise of making the best operating system on the planet. And we realized that it's pretty important as we're building an operating system for everyone on the planet, that we get feedback from not only people who live in Silicon Valley, and Redmond, Washington, but also people who live in Nairobi, or live in Nigeria or people who live in Cambodia. So what are the things that has been probably one of the most gratifying things for me,