Satya Nadella has met with customers and investors in recent weeks.

Judged as of 2014-03-03, about a month after Nadella became CEO on 4 February 2014. True if dated reports, schedules or Microsoft communications show that he met with customers and investors (both groups) in the weeks before 3 March 2014. Mostly true if he clearly met with one group and there is weaker evidence for the other, or the meetings were slightly outside 'recent weeks'. Mixed if meetings with only one of the two groups are documented and the other is contradicted. Mostly false if the only engagements found were minor or not really meetings (e.g., public remarks only). False if evidence shows he did not meet customers or investors during that period.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Microsoft CEO Nadella aces first-100-day test Computerworld · 15 May 2014

   “From everything I’ve heard, he came in, listened a lot, did a lot of one-on-one meetings,”

2. E2 In First Big Exec Confab, New Microsoft CEO Says Company Needs to Be Full of “Challengers” and Not Followers Vox (originally appeared on Recode.net) · 20 March 2014

   “Whether it’s just talk or not remains to be seen, with Nadella just beginning what has been described to me as a listening tour of Microsoft employees and its partners.”

3. E3 In First Big Exec Confab, New Microsoft CEO Says Company Needs to Be Full of “Challengers” and Not Followers Vox (originally appeared on Recode.net) · 20 March 2014

   “He has seen Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, for example, as well as other Silicon Valley leaders.”

4. E4 Gates shifts role at Microsoft, new CEO named Daily News Egypt (AFP report) · 5 February 2014

   “He said his first priority as chief will be to meet with employees, customers, partners and investors since, despite his 22 years at the company, “there is still a lot to learn.””

E5 records only Nadella's stated plan, made at his appointment, to meet employees, customers, partners and investors. It does not show that any such meeting took place. E3 describes a listening tour of employees and partners, and E4 mentions meetings with Marissa Mayer and other Silicon Valley leaders, but neither names customers or investors or dates the meetings before 3 March 2014. E2 mentions one-on-one meetings without saying who they were with or when. None of the evidence documents meetings with customers or investors in the weeks before 3 March 2014, and none contradicts the claim either.