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Post-Post-PC CEO: The Full Code Conference Video of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella
As promised, we’re posting the full videos of interviews from the recent Code Conference.
A new video of one of the many stellar speakers for the event, which took place two weeks ago in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., will go up every day. (You can see a compilation video of the speakers here.)
Today, it’s the opening night interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the longtime Microsoft veteran who was chosen as the software giant’s third leader in its history earlier this year.
India-born Nadella was an interesting choice for CEO, as you will see here in this interview with me and Walt Mossberg. He is faced with a range of challenges from Microsoft’s efforts in the mobile, gaming, search and content arenas and how it evolves its most powerful enterprise business. In all these areas, the company faces myriad competitors, such as Google and Apple.
Nadella talked about all this and more, from his relationship with Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates to how he does not intend to sell the Bing search business to Yahoo to his main focuses.
Here’s the full video of the interview:
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At the summit, Microsoft also highlighted examples of technology-based innovations from the student community in India. Satya Nadella praised the student innovators in India saying they have shown “deep passion, deep empathy, and are then able to turn this into action.” He added: “That&#;s what innovation is all about. That&#;s how societies and economies move forward.”
Nadella mentioned the project by Namya Joshi, a seventh-grade student at Sat Paul Mittal School in Ludhiana, Punjab who is using Minecraft to transform learning with Minecraft by helping teachers create interactive classes.
The Microsoft CEO hailed how Namiya was first able to enjoy Minecraft and then effectively learn programming. “That&#;s one of the things we are very excited about. Minecraft happens to have the ability to attract young middle school girls into STEM education and computer science as a pedagogical tool and that&#;s exciting to see,” he said.
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“But then she turned it around, and said okay what if I now can create lessons, what if I can in fact teach the teachers, teach other students. That is the balance between consumption and creation that I think is going to be a real currency,” he added.
Nadella also hailed students working on projects that could help others, including the community around them. “There’s a student group working on air pollution detection. They were educating me on how by using the sensors built with this database, the population is empowered to have data inform them and is then able to take action as both individuals and community. The quality of ideas, the ambition, the scope, but more importa Satya Nadella was born on August 19, in Hyderabad. 2/8 Satya Nadella completed his schooling from Hyderabad Public School and went on to study electronics and communication engineering at Manipal University. Satya Nadella married his schoolmate Anupama in , the same year he joined Microsoft. Like most Indians, Nadella is a big fan of cricket. Satya Nadella enjoys poetry. According to Equilar ' highest-paid CEO rankings,' Satya Nadella is the highest paid tech CEO in the US. 7/8 We have already announced a pretty heady lineup for the the first Code Conference (actually our 12th event in a row). Interestingly, the spate of big names for the May event includes a number of relatively new CEOs, such as General Motors’ Mary Barra and Walmart’s Doug McMillon, BlackBerry CEO John Chen, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. But there is one new CEO in particular — who will be one of the opening speakers at Code on the first night — who faces perhaps the biggest challenge of all: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. There are still more speakers to announce, but Nadella is a great person to start the discussion of where tech is going as he takes the reins of the software giant, which has been facing and continues to face numerous challenges despite its great size and power. Among the many issues piled on the new leader’s desk: What to do about mobile; how to cope with the ever-aggressive forays of Google and other competitors into its main businesses; and how to rejigger the company to become more nimble in the face of fast changes that sweep the tech industry daily. It’s a big job, of course, and it will be important to really get to know the person who is one of the sector’s highest-profile leaders. Though a longtime vet of Microsoft, with stints all over the company, Nadella has not been a look-at-me exec in his many years in the tech space, although he prevailed over much splashier outside candidates to win the top job. He is only the third CEO since the company’s founding, replacing Steve Ballmer. The first Microsoft CEO, of course, was co-founder and chairman Bill Gates. Most recently, he has been a quiet and self-effacing Microsoft enterprise chief, perhaps the company’s most important division. I met him when he was a key exec in the early days of its Bing search
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 10 interesting facts
His father BN Yugandhar is a former IAS officer who has held positions such as the Prime Minister’s special secretary and was a member of the planning commission as well.Studied at Manipal University
After graduating in , he moved to the US to pursue his masters in computer science from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
He also holds an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
The two have three children– a son and two daughters– and live in Bellevue, Washington.
In fact, he was a part of his school’s cricket team. In an interview with Hyderabad's Deccan Chronicle, he said that playing cricket taught him about team work and leadership.
His favourite form of the game is test cricket and he likens it to a Russian novel, because there are so many sub-plots in it.
His profile on Microsoft's official website lists reading poetry as one of his hobbies.
In pic: Microsoft CEO,Satya Nadella calledon Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu at his residence in Hyderabad during his visit.
The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. 4 on the overall list with a yearly compensation of $84,,
This includes a base salary of $,, along with $3,, in cash bonus and $12, in perks.
In pic: Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad with Microsoft CEO at Sanchar Bhawan in New Delhi during his visit.Got Bill Gates as m
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