That isn't it here. Everyone else was white save for Shane Kim. He's the one like Neo. He's the one who got the CEO to believe and invest.
Everyone else was head of Xbox. Peter Moore, Robbie Bach, Don Mattrick, Shane Kim, J. Allard, etc. They were in charge of Xbox, the side project, the thing Bill Gates didn't understand and what Steve Ballmer didn't want.
Phil is in charge of Microsoft gaming. He has a seat at the big boy table that the others did not have. To get to this point, I know he's done five lifetimes worth of work.