https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148210/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-charlottesville-memo

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has emailed his leadership team with a memo that references the past week’s events and the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. In a email obtained by Quartz, Nadella says the tragedy at Charlottesville — where a 32-year-old woman was killed after a car rammed into anti-white supremacist protesters — was “horrific.”

“It is an especially important time to continue to be connected with people, and listen and learn from each other’s experiences,” says Nadella, in the memo that references the events of “this past week.” Those events include the firing of former Google employee James Damore, after the engineer published a 10-page “manifesto” condemning Google’s diversity efforts and claiming men are biologically more predisposed to working in the tech industry than women. That event triggered Google CEO Sundar Pichai to send his own memo to Google employees last week.