Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella
Satya Narayana Nadellais an Indian-born American business executive. He is the current chief executive officerof Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Before becoming CEO of Microsoft, he was Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's Computing Platforms, Developer Tools and Cloud Computing Services...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 January 1967
CityHyderabad, India
CountryUnited States of America
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.
Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'
Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.