The people who move billions through Microsoft also sit inside Salesforce and Berkshire Hathaway. No Microsoft filing tells you that — you find it by walking the entity graph: from the company, to its insiders, to every other company those insiders touch.
Walking Microsoft's insider_of edges and rolling ~9,200 transactions up per person surfaces
the whales — and, crucially, how they trade, which is the real signal:
| Person | Value moved | Pattern | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Gates Founder |
$8.0B | planned · 10b5-1 | Programmatic diversification on a pre-set schedule — not a discretionary signal. |
| Mason Morfit ValueAct Capital |
$3.1B | open-market · activist | An activist investor making discretionary open-market sells — a fundamentally different, watch-worthy signal. |
| Steve Ballmer Former CEO |
$1.5B | open-market | Founder-era holder trimming a still-enormous position. |
A per-ticker report shows "insiders sold $12.6B" as one number. The graph separates the programmatic seller from the activist — because it knows who these people are.
Second hop: take each of those insiders and walk their edges. This is the map no single filing contains — the other boardrooms and companies Microsoft's power players occupy:
Microsoft's second-largest insider seller, Mason Morfit, is also a top insider at Salesforce — the same activist, billions in transactions, sitting inside two $2-trillion companies at once. That single fact connects two of the largest firms on earth through one person, and it is invisible in either company's filings. It only exists in the space between them — which is exactly what a graph is.
Our standard company report is ~8 independent lookups, each keyed to one ticker, stitched together —
every section blind to the others. This report is a walk:
resolve(Microsoft) → its insiders → each insider's other companies. Every line above is a live
traversal across 42 million linked relationships in the entity graph. The moment you can walk
it, a whole class of question — "who really influences this company, and where else does that influence
reach?" — becomes answerable. And there is no other way to answer it.