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Everyone has heard about Microsoft Corp. but very few people know about Satya Nadella- the man behind Microsoft. It was founded by Bill Gates who was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Microsoft for a long time. Currently, Satya Narayana Nadella is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.

Under his leadership, Microsoft has seen tremendous growth. Satya Narayan Nadella has made Microsoft Cloud Computing revenue more than Google. Its subscribers surpass Netflix and occupy a trillion-dollar capital market.

Before reading the success story of Satya Nadella; let’s take a look at some important information:

Birthplace	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Age	56 (2024)
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	United States
Source of Wealth	Microsoft
Marital Status	Married
Spouse	Anupama Nadella

The Success Story of Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella has been a part of Microsoft since 1992. He started as a young engineer. Earlier, he worked at Sun Microsystems. It is a company that sells computer Software and Information Technology Services. Nadella quit Sun Microsystems to join Microsoft. Furthermore, it took him years to secure a place in the executive role. He became the Vice President of Microsoft Central in 2000.

The Indian-origin engineer has proved his worth at every step of the company. Moreover, he first became the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions. Then he became the Senior Vice President of Microsoft online services.

By 2007 he had taken charge of Bing, earlier versions of Microsoft Office, Xbox Live broad gaming network and the Office 365 subscription-based services. By the year 2011, he became the president of the Tools and Server division.

As the President, he overlooked the cloud platform and other products for the company’s data centres like SQL Server Database and the Windows Server. Under his leadership, the Server and Tools division earned a great revenue of around $16.6 billion. Furthermore, Nadella proved his worth by multiplying the revenue generated under his leadership to $20.3 billion within 2 years.

Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO on February 4th, 2014. It happened after Steve Ballmer stepped down as Microsoft’s CEO. This decision was taken by Bill Gates who is the Founder of Microsoft along with the opinion of Ballmer.

Subsequently, Nadella was able to pull Microsoft out of its difficult phase using his intuition and efficient working approach. Under his Reign, Microsoft regained its position as a giant in the market.

Do you know how Nadella was able to make Microsoft flourish again?

These are the major changes that Satya Nadella introduced as the CEO of Microsoft:

Under his reign, he released Microsoft Office for Apple’s iPad.
He worked on Microsoft Outlook apps and released them for iPhone and Android.
After the big disaster of Windows 8, he skipped Windows 9.
He directly released Windows 10 which was a huge success.
Nadella used the Linux operating system on the Azure cloud.
He was behind the acquisition of Mojang, the company that created the game Minecraft.
He introduced the Microsoft Surface Book which was the company’s first laptop.

Satya Nadella’s Early Life and Education

Satya Nadella was born on 19th August 1967 in the South Indian city of Hyderabad. He completed his schooling at Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet. Nadella tried to get into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). However, he failed in his attempt. Nadella joined the Birla Institute of Technology also known as BITS, situated in Mesra.

After getting admission into the Manipal Institute of Technology, he did his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering in 1998. He was keen to learn about software and Technology. However, he saw a lack of practical knowledge in Indian Institutes. Consequently, he decided to pursue his MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Additionally, he also pursued a degree in MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

A Partly Arranged Love Marriage

Satya and Anupama married each other. Many people think that it was a love marriage but that’s not the case. It was a partly arranged marriage. Anupama and Nadella’s fathers knew each other from their Indian Administrative Service, as they were batchmates. Currently, Satya and Anu are happily married with a family of three children.

They live in a house situated in Bellevue, Washington. The couple owns a Seattle Sounders FC and a Major League Soccer club as partners. Additionally, Satya Nadella has an interest in literature; an avid reader of both American and Indian poetry. He is also a religious fan of cricket.

Satya Nadella and his wife lost their son Zain Nadella on February 28, 2022. The 26-year-old born on August 13 1996 had Cerebral Palsy since his birth.

Do You Know Satya Nadella Once Gave Away His Green Card?

A romantic story, an act of love by Nadella is quite famous among the public. It happened in 1994 after his marriage to Anupama. Nadella once gave away his green card for the love of his life. After marrying Anupama who lived in India, Nadella wanted her to move abroad with him. However, due to a long-awaited stretch of people and lines, she couldn’t get her visa approved.

Moreover, she got a temporary Visa to visit for a short duration. Satya presented the situation to his lawyer. Furthermore, they discussed how to solve the matter. To his surprise, his lawyer suggested a very risky proposition. He asked Satya to return his Green card. There was a provision to apply as an H1B worker. Moreover, H1B workers can bring over their spouses.

He went to the US embassy and took this risk. Additionally, he mentions in his book that the clerk was amazed by his willingness to return the green card. It was such a rare view to observe. This all worked out well for him and his family in the end. Now, he holds a green card of American citizenship.

Recently, Nadella has somehow managed to convince Donald Trump to look into the loopholes of H-1B and work towards reforming it. Consequently, it will make it easier for Microsoft and other countries to bring qualified talents overboard to America.

Awards And Recognitions Presented To Satya Nadella

Nadella was honoured as the Person of the Year by the Financial Times in 2019.
Nadella was included in Barron’s World’s 30 best CEOs list year after year.
He was recognized by CNBC-TV18’s India Business Leader Awards held in Mumbai as the Global Indian Business Icon in the year 2020.
Moreover, Satya Nadella has won the Padma Bhushan- the third-highest civilian award in 2022.

He received the award from India’s Consul General Dr TV Nagendra Prasad in San Francisco. Additionally, Satya Nadella showcased his gratitude while accepting the award and said, “It is an honour to receive the Padma Bhushan Award and to be recognised by so many extraordinary people. I am thankful to the President, Prime Minister, and people of India and look forward to continuing to work with people across India to help them use technology to achieve more,” said Nadella after getting the award.

Publications by Satya Nadella

In 2017, a book co-authored by Satya was released. ‘Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone.’ It was co-authored by Nadella, Greg Shaw, and Jill Tracie Nichols. This autobiography revolves around Satya’s life and his viewpoint towards technology and the future. Moreover, it also includes stories from his personal life.

Acquisition And Take-Overs

Since Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, his first acquisition was Mojang, a Swedish game company. It is known for its computer game Minecraft. Moreover, Microsoft acquired it in a $2.5 billion deal. Subsequently, Nadella’s first-ever major task was to oversee Nokia Corp.’s mobile device business acquisition in a deal of $7.2 billion.

However, this transaction was already announced by Microsoft in 2013 when Nadella was an employee like others. In April 2014 this deal closed despite the reservations of various Microsoft executives including Nadella.

In the history of Microsoft, the biggest decision ever to eliminate 18,000 positions was taken shortly after the Nokia deal was closed. Subsequently, the majority of layoffs involved Nokia. Afterwards, Satya purchased Xamarin in 2014 for an undisclosed price.

Later in 2016, Nadella purchased LinkedIn which is the largest professional business network. This social website was bought for $26.2 billion. Recently, on October 26, 2018, GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for US$7.5 billion.

Furthermore, Microsoft continues to acquire companies. The most recent one is Fungible, which it acquired on January 9, 2023.

Shaking Hands With Competition

We have seen many companies fighting for more publicity among their competitors. However, in the case of Microsoft, Nadella followed the ‘Keep your friends close but enemies closer’ quote seriously. Despite being a competition of Microsoft, he has always emphasized working with competing major tech giants such as Apple Inc., Salesforce, IBM, and Dropbox.

Before Nadella became the CEO there were plenty of campaigns running against the Linux operating system. However, Satya proclaimed in his term as the CEO that “Microsoft ❤️ Linux.” Subsequently, in 2016 Microsoft also joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member.

What is the net worth of Satya Nadella?

The total net worth of Satya Nadella is over $1 billion (as of Jan 2024). Furthermore, Nadella earns $3 Million+ for his post of CEO and Director at Microsoft.

About Microsoft

Paul Gardner Allen and William Henry Gates III founded Microsoft in 1975. Moreover, the company deals majorly in the development and support of software, services, devices, and solutions. Additionally, Microsoft has various business segments via which it operates such as Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

First is the Productivity and Business Processes segment. Additionally, it deals with the products and services that fall under productivity, communication, and information services. The second is the cloud segment. This is an intelligently designed system dealing with public, private, and hybrid service products. Modern products focus solely on the end-users, developers, and IT professionals concerning a wide range of devices.

Moreover, the company also actively offers operating systems, cross-device productivity applications, server applications, business solution applications, desktop and server management tools, software development tools, video games, personal computers, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, other intelligent devices, and related accessories. Furthermore, Microsoft Crop. headquarter is in Redmond, WA.

Investing in Artificial Intelligence

As technology is evolving, Artificial Intelligence is becoming the talk of the town. Moreover, it is being used in every sector. So, why would Microsoft back off?

“Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years into expanding cloud services and artificial intelligence in Indonesia, including building data centres,” as envisioned by Chief Executive Satya Nadella.

Jakarta is just one of the stops on Nadella’s trip to Southeast Asian countries aimed at promoting generative AI. Next, he will go to Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover, Microsoft will train 2.5 million people in Southeast Asia in AI use by 2025, including 840,000 in Indonesia.

Microsoft Aims To Train More Than 2 Million People

Microsoft aims to train more than 2 million people in India with artificial intelligence skills by 2025. This is done under an initiative called ADVANTA(I)GE which will help generate more jobs. He made this announcement at the Microsoft CEO connection event in Mumbai.

During his speech at the event, he talked about the work done by Karya, an AI startup which enlists and pays more than 30,000 rural Indians. The startup helps create quality datasets. It creates it through speech, text, images, and videos for training large language models in 12 Indian languages.

Interesting Facts about Satya Nadella

He can speak several languages such as Hindi, English, and Telugu.
Satya Nadella harbours a profound appreciation for poetry. Moreover, he likes to immerse himself in the world of verses.
Furthermore, he loves to find parallels between the rhythm of poetry and the precision of coding.
Satya Nadella is the mastermind behind Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
Moreover, he revolutionised the company’s offerings from Bing, XboxLive, and Office 365.
Under Nadella’s guidance, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2 billion. Thereby, making it one of the largest tech acquisitions in history.
Along with Microsoft, Satya Nadella serves on the board of directors of Starbucks.
When Satya Nadella took over as the CEO, Bill Gates re-joined the company to guide and mentor Nadella personally.
Satya Nadella’s wife, Anu Nadella, is a successful businesswoman.
Furthermore, she is the founder of the non-profit organisation, “Anuva Investments.”

Conclusion

Life is indeed a ride of thick and thin. Under his leadership, the company continues to grow manifolds. Moreover, the company is also going to foray into Artificial Intelligence, which is a domain that all the companies have started to enter and Microsoft doesn’t want to get left behind.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Satya Nadella Hindu?

Yes, Satya Nadella was born into a Telugu Hindu family.

Is Satya Nadella from IIT?

No, Satya Nadella is not from IIT as he failed in his attempt to clear the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exam.

How did Satya Nadella become CEO?

Satya Nadella became the CEO because of his background in software technology and his familiarity with the company.

Who is the CEO of Microsoft now?

Satya Nadella is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.

How many CEOs did Microsoft have?

Microsoft has had three CEOs till now. First, was Bill Gates. Second was Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella is the third CEO of Microsoft.

Who are the top 5 owners of Microsoft?

Top Microsoft shareholders are Satya Nadella, Bradford L. Smith, Kathleen Hogan, Vanguard Group Inc., and Black Rock Inc.

What is the salary of Satya Nadella?

As Nadella is the CEO and Director, he receives a total annual compensation of $48,512,537. Consequently, he is the highest-paid executive at Microsoft.