Microsoft’s CEO on Rediscovering the Company’s Soul

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s third CEO, opens up about his effort to refresh the culture of the company and renew its focus on the future. He reflects on important life lessons he learned growing up in India, immigrating to the U.S., and working for Microsoft for 25 years. Nadella thinks of the past, he says, for the sake of the future—of technology, public policy, and work. His new autobiography is "Hit Refresh."

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0:38.0	Satya Nandella started working at Microsoft in 1992 when the world was running on Windows, writing in Word, and
0:46.2	soon Internet Explorering.
0:49.2	He was leading R&D efforts by the time company founder Bill Gates handed off the CEO title to Steve Balmer in 2000,
0:56.3	right before the tech bubble burst.
0:58.7	Nadella stayed on as the company began to lose some of its shine.
1:02.6	Apple debuted the iPhone.
1:04.4	Google reined over search.
1:06.3	And Microsoft rolled out products like Vista.
1:10.6	And Bing.
1:12.1	The technology industry was growing and Microsoft's share of the profits was shrinking.
1:16.0	It was time to hit refresh. Nadella became Microsoft's third CEO in 2014 and he's an insider on a mission. Hit refresh is in fact the title of his
1:27.0	new book. It's about his childhood in India, leadership lessons from cricket and the first few years in the top job.
1:34.0	One, two, three, four.
1:35.0	Nadella sat down in Microsoft's Times Square Office.
1:37.5	Hi, Adi, how are you?
1:38.6	I'm fine.
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