Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on AI's Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft? | LIVE from Davos
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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4.0 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
(0:00) Jason and Sacks welcome Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
(1:31) Future of AI copilots and agents, impact on white collar work
(8:01) How Microsoft has scaled revenue and profits with flat headcount
(10:50) The extreme competition in AI: Microsoft, xAI, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic
(12:39) Views on diffusion, how the US tech stack can win globally
(19:59) OpenAI deal, owning the IP, thoughts on open-source winning AI, Microsoft's AI stack, do they need a foundation model?
(26:08) What SaaS adoption looks like in the age of AI
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, we're thrilled to have the one the only. |
| 0:03.9 | Satya and Nadella here, the third CEO of Microsoft for an impromptu fireside chat with David Sacks, |
| 0:12.0 | our czar of AI and crypto. |
| 0:15.6 | Satya, third CEO of Microsoft, born in India. |
| 0:21.6 | What an incredible story. |
| 0:23.6 | Came here right after college. |
| 0:26.6 | And you had a little round trip to pick up your wife in your book to bring her here. |
| 0:31.6 | Tell everybody briefly how that occurred. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, you know, so that's a great story of the, the labyrinth that is the immigration policies |
| 0:45.0 | of the United States, I think. |
| 0:48.5 | My wife and I went to college together in India. |
| 0:51.1 | I came here for grad school. |
| 0:52.7 | We then got married. |
| 0:56.1 | I got my green card, and she couldn't come join because we got married. So the story goes basically, I had to give |
| 1:04.7 | up my green card. So the funny thing is I went to the American embassy in Delhi, and I said, |
| 1:09.9 | where is the line to give up my green card? |
| 1:11.9 | And they said, there is no such a line. |
| 1:14.5 | That would be a crazy thing to do in the 90s. |
| 1:17.4 | So it was a strange thing to give up your green card, get an H-1 so that she could join. |
| 1:21.8 | But it all worked out. |
| 1:22.9 | So, you know, it's a long-lost memory, but it was a way to work around it. |
| 1:28.3 | I wanted to ask you, having launched a co-pilot first with GitHub, then having a co-pilot on the desktop, |
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