jason1637 said:
Yeah it’s either between her or Matt. But I think Sarah is ahead rn if the decision was made today. |
I think she's way ahead of Matt at this stage, Matt "only" leads the XGS but Sarah since being with Xbox had helped lead Game Pass, has helped lead M&A, over the past few years has been by Phil's side on basically every single business trip, she is forming relationships and business deals with all the major publishers, she is expanding Xbox's global team and Phil praises her specifically in company emails quite often.
He made note of her contribution in particular to the new Ubisoft/CMA deal which suggests she had something to do with forming the deal (not a surprise, as M&A is an area of knowledge for her) so that basically means Sarah is partly responsible for the closure of a $69bn deal. She has been pushed in the spotlight a lot more lately too, appearing in most major media events, usually alongside Phil.
I just hope Matt is happy with his career peaking at "XGS" inside of Microsoft because there's always a risk that when people realise they can't go any higher up the chain, they leave the company for another as they want to actually progress in their career but if Matt just loves what he is doing and doesn't have aspirations like that then he may stay.
