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Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella

Net Worth

$250,000,000

Born in (City)

Hyderabad

Born in (Country)

India

Date of Birth

19th December, 1967

Date of Death

-

Mother

Prabhavati Yugandhar

Father

Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar

Children

  • Zain Nadella
  • Tara Nadella
  • Divya Nadella

About

“I don’t want to fight old battles, I want to fight new ones. If you don’t jump on the new, you don’t survive” being said once by the only tech giant surpassing 14 top tech leaders this year at the age of 53, currently topping the Comparably survey ranked by non-white employees and who does not need any more introduction. He is Satya Nadella, the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, Microsoft. Takeaways are the prime characteristics to absorb from a successful person. As Nadella himself believes he is learning, learning the power of infusing empathy into his everyday actions being a father and as a CEO. And is deeply committed to pushing the limits of combining love and compassion with human ingenuity. Continuous exercise of learning, perpetually reinventing yourself and knowledge on product and consumer are the key takeaways from him. Ultimately culminating in the best piece of advice from him, “Be bold, be right because, if you are not bold, you’re not gonna do much of anything and if you’re not right, you’re gonna be dead”.

Early Life

Nadella pursued his secondary and senior secondary education from Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana), the place where he natives his existence on 19 August 1967. He continued to work towards receiving a Bachelor’s degree focusing on electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology (which was a part of Mangalore University back then) in Karnataka in 1988. In 1990, Nadella got accredited with a Master’s degree (M.S) in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, later when he moved out of India traveling to the U.S. As a member of technical staff, he was employed to work at Sun Microsystems, Inc in the early ’90s which did not last long as he was seduced away to join Microsoft in 1992. Here Nadella at first got into the business for the development of Windows NT, which is a milestone operating system framed mainly for primary business users where he kept building projects including an unsuccessful interactive-TV product. A Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Chicago in 1997 was earned by him at a period where he worked full-time at Microsoft.

Road to Success

He aspired to bring a change to Microsoft’s rigid culture, contemporary of him being named as the CEO. The new idea connoted the employees to revert back to the consumer’s demands and actively thrive at pursuing diversity and incorporation into the system. Nadella was dumbfounded. In his initial years at Microsoft, he gave up the security of a green card for a temporary work visa for his wife to make a way in the states to join him. He traveled back to the US Embassy in Delhi in 1994, covering the long queues of people in the hope to get a visa, and informed a clerk that he wanted to hand over his green card and apply for an H-1B. This peril at his position made him learn the eminence on the Microsoft campus. His priority is his wife, he says and that decision made him simple enough. At an interview with CNBC’s Jon Fortt, Nadella discloses the strategy used to build smarter technology in ways similar to his neighboring company, Amazon. He acknowledges the common grounds they have in believing in their built personal digital assistants, where the walled garden strategies work for some of the time, but not all of the time. He concludes by summarizing how strong competition Azure(Microsoft’s cloud platform) will have as an open distributed ecosystem that will meet the world’s needs in all sectors. Also, he does not believe in a winner-take-all kind of ethos, he feels the competition arises every day for us to commit to attaining effective and consistent progress.

Challenges

Zain, his eldest son has severe cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia and is legally blind. At the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, October 2017 Nadella shared how the birth of Zain transformed into much of today’s Nadella. He shares his strife, “I struggled with it for perhaps multiple years because the well laid out plans of mine as sort of a mid-level or even an entry-level engineer at Microsoft were all sort of out the window. I needed to recalibrate”. Very empathetic. From the Microsoft Accessibility Blog shared on Linkedin, he writes, becoming “a father of a son with special needs was the turning point” in his life and expresses his empathy towards the expedition of people with disabilities.

Failures

In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he failed, multiple times, to remain committed to consumers who have shown a commitment to Microsoft. Though he refrained from mentioning anything relating to the windows phone specifically, it is comprehensible that he failed to uphold the commitment to Windows phone users. Though he didn't mention Windows phone specifically, Nadella clearly failed in his commitment to Windows phone users. Reneging on a promise to make Windows phones if no one else did, withdrawing from markets where Windows phones thrived, a lack of marketing, and failing to lead Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support with first-party apps is a condemning litany of proof of Nadella's failed commitment to consumers.

Achievements

In 2018, he was a Time 100 honoree.|In 2019, Nadella was named Financial Times Person of the Year and Fortune magazine Businessperson of the Year.|In 2020, Nadella was recognized as Global Indian Business Icon at CNBC-TV18's India Business Leader Awards in Mumbai.

Quotes

  • Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.
  • Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
  • Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place
  • I told them that we spend far too much time at work for it not to have deep meaning.