Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, the CEO of the world’s most valued company and Fortune’s businessmen of the year
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“A computer scientist who had risen through the technical and general-management ranks at the software giant. He’d never worked in finance, another training ground for CEOs,” Fortune commented
He kept rising through the ranks, and fast in the 2000s. By 2007, he was the senior Vice President of Microsoft Online Services which included Bing, online Microsoft Suite and the Xbox Live gaming service.
He led some of the big acquisition Microsoft has ever done. In 2018, it acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. Soon, Microsoft became a mobile and cloud company from a devices and services company. Nadella’s leadership was all about serving customers, as per demand.
Its value hit the $1 trillion mark, up by 230% since 2014 since Nadella’s entry to the top post. The company earned $39 billion revenue in FY19, growing at a three year compound annual rate of 11%.
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