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It also saddened me that day to see Mundie, who had taken his wife with him on a business trip to China during my time with Microsoft Research Asia. He asked me, “Can your wife help my wife look for garbage?”  I was surprised. Then he told me about his wife’s hobby of collecting second-hand things. My wife took her to the flea markets in Beijing and made her very happy. In the meantime I accompanied him to see Chinese government officials. He criticized a high tech policy of China in front of a Chinese minister, who knew little English. I was afraid he would offend the minister because the government’s authority was hardly ever challenged in China, so I only translated about 20% of his words. After the meeting, he asked why the Chinese translation was so short. I told him, “Brevity is the magic of the Chinese language.”

I described my deposition encounter with Mundie in my journal as well:

Craig Mundie walked in from his vacation.  He had just returned from a long trip on his boat.  He had a friendly smile when he saw me, and was eager to tell me about his trip.  We talked about his boat computers, where he went, how he decompressed.

Then the reporter turned on the machine and Craig was a different man.

In the morning, it was “Kai-Fu knew everything.”  And in the afternoon it was “Everything is a trade secret.” 

I knew Ballmer would be the harshest among them all. But I was still shocked to hear his deposition.  I described how I felt about it in my journal:

He started by saying, “To our Chinese employees, Kai-Fu is like a Godfather.”

My attorney Ragesh asked “Mr. Ballmer, is Godfather an official Microsoft title?”

I was unable to laugh at that humorous question, because Ballmer continued to say that

I had “broad and unilateral” responsibility for the company’s China strategy.

What a huge lie that was! Responsibility, perhaps he offered me some before I left, but I didn’t take that job! Broad?  No way. Unilateral?  Impossible. “Godfather !”  Was this about the respect people had for me?  Or the work I voluntarily did for Gates and Ballmer?  Was my generosity turning into a monster to bite me?

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