Satya Nadella

Chairman & CEO, Microsoft

Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's chief executive since 2014 and its chairman since 2021. He made Microsoft a cloud company and then a major AI player through its investment in OpenAI, and he now sets how Microsoft charges for AI.

Net worth: $1.4B; Forbes, Sep 1, 2026
Company: 1

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Known for

Backing OpenAI and turning Azure into the cloud most token revenue passes through.

Worth knowing

He was the third chief executive in Microsoft's history, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
He wrote Hit Refresh (2017), about his life and Microsoft, and gave the profits to Microsoft Philanthropies.
He was the Financial Times Person of the Year in 2019 and received India's Padma Bhushan in 2022.
He is part of the group that bought the Seattle Orcas cricket team in Major League Cricket.

Age: 59
Based: Redmond, WA
Primary role: CEO, Microsoft
Citizenship: United States
Latest trade: Sold $43.4M of MSFT, 2 September 2026
Born: 1967, Hyderabad, India

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Microsoft's Windows OEM revenue fell 22% as AI capex bid up memory prices for laptops

Microsoft's record Azure quarter carried the first consumer landing of the AI memory bill: Windows OEM revenue down 22% as datacenter demand helps bid up the chips that price laptops out of buyers' hands. The wires called the slump immaterial; the mechanism says it deepens into December.

October 30, 2026 · 3 min read

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Latest on Satya Nadella

Microsoft's Windows OEM revenue fell 22% as AI capex bid up memory prices for laptops

Microsoft's $41 billion capex quarter tops its $35.8 billion net income, and Maia is the bet

Microsoft's next Xbox is projected at $1,200 to $1,800; cloud gaming now bills $3.99 per 10 hours

The Wall Street Journal's six-show streaming plan projects 75 million viewers on unproven ad rates

OpenAI paid Microsoft to scrape news in secret. Meta's fine print prices it at zero

Snowflake's CoCo agent passed 9,100 accounts and its CFO says counting it in guidance would be reckless

Labor Department freezes Microsoft, Adobe and Cognizant out of green cards; Infosys touches a six-year low

GitHub's agent pull requests beat human ones in August, near 75 million a month, as Microsoft meters Copilot

Microsoft's Rally Rests on a Customer That Owes It $6 Billion and Just Moved Into Amazon's Cloud

The cloud landlord now is a tenant: Microsoft has signed for $43.8bn of Nscale capacity

Trump told Jensen Huang AI safety is a "hoax" while his family sells the Chinese AI he says it helps

Evicted: OpenAI Boots Adobe Out of ChatGPT While Its Own Kingdom Shrinks

Connections

At Microsoft

In the same stories

Largest fund holders of Microsoft

Ties, as Forbes lists them

Either side by net worth