Satya Nadella

August 5th

Satya Nadella became Microsoft CEO in 2014. He originally joined the company in 1992 after a short stint at Sun Microsystems. He was born in Hyderabad, India.

Prior to becoming CEO, Nadella was leader of Microsoft's Servers and Tools division, which included the Azure cloud platform that has since become Microsoft's most lucrative business.

As CEO, Nadella has overseen the expansion and success of Microsoft's cloud services, and has pushed the company to invest heavily in AI. In 2018, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, surpassing Apple for the first time since 2010.

Watch a 1993 video of Nadella on a Microsoft Devcast:

To see how little his presentation style has changed over the decades, here's his keynote at Microsoft Build 2019:

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Microsoft

August 11th

Since taking over as CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella has steered Microsoft's priorities toward the ultra competitive cloud computing market.

A large portion of Microsoft's customer base are other businesses. In the past, those clients purchased or licensed Microsoft Office and Windows. Today, they increasingly sign contracts with Microsoft Azure, the company's cloud platform.

Azure offers traditional web and data hosting alongside a growing swath of AI-enabled services, like personalized product recommendations for e-commerce and image- and audio-recognition for supply chain and manufacturing.

To continue to attract high value clients, Microsoft is investing heavily in AI, and forming partnerships with AI companies to build technology on top of Azure.

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