Satya Nadella – Biography, Life, Wealth, Ideology

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Satya Nadella

Satya Narayana Nadella

Entrepreneur, CEO of Microsoft

Net worth in 2022: $814 million

Personal Stats

Age : 55 in 2022

Birth: 19th August 1967, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Source of Wealth: Chairman andCEO of Microsoft

Citizenship:  United States

Residence: Bellevue in Washington

Children: 3

Salary: $309.4 million in 2021 

Monthly Income: up to $30 million

Education:

Manipal Institute of Technology

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

University of Chicago

Religion: unknown

Height: 175 cm (5´9´´)

Weight: 64 kg (141 Ibs)

Shoe Size: 11 (US),  44,5 EU, 9 UK

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color:  Greyish-White

Zodiac Sign: lion

Hobbies: American and Indian poetry, cricket

Summary: He is the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft 

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Interesting facts:

  • Released Microsoft Office for Apple’s iPad  
  • Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992
  • Used Linux operating system on the Azure cloud 
  • Skipped Windows 9 and released Windows 10  
  • When Nadella took on the role of CEO, Bill Gates re-joined the company to become his personal mentor.
  • After helping generate billions in profit in two years between 2011 and 2013, he received a pay of $84.5 million in 2016.
  • Bought Mojang (the company that created Minecraft) 
  • Released iPhone and Android apps like Microsoft Outlook 
  • He married his high school sweetheart. Nadella met his wife Anupuma when they were both students at Hyderabad Public School in the early ’80s. They’ve now been married for 22 years and have three children. 
  • Introduced the Microsoft Surface Book, the company’s first laptop

Books Written by Grant Cardone:

  • Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Quotes:

  • “I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned that only through living life’s ups and downs can you develop empathy; that in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence.” Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh 
  • “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh 
  • “It showed me that you must always have respect for your competitor, but don’t be in awe.” Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone 
  • “Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.” Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone 
  • “We needed to build deeper empathy for our customers and their unarticulated and unmet needs. It was time to hit refresh.” Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

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