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By steering Microsoft from a $300 billion also-ran into a $3 trillion cloud-and-AI powerhouse — anchored by Azure's $100 billion in annual revenue and a $13 billion OpenAI bet — Nadella has engineered the most consequential corporate reinvention in tech history.
Satya Nadella is Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, where market capitalization has grown from roughly $300 billion when he took over in 2014 to over $3 trillion.
He shifted the company's strategy toward cloud computing through Azure, which generates over $100 billion in annual revenue, and led a $13 billion investment in OpenAI. His book Hit Refresh detailed Microsoft's strategic transformation.
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