Satya Nadella
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Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
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Nadella on his first day as CEO of Microsoft, with former CEOs Bill Gates (left) and Steve Ballmer (right)
Nadella leads a live discussion on Microsoft's cloud strategy in 2014 in San Francisco.
Bill Gates
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William Henry Gates III is an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software giant Microsoft, along with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being its largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Gates (right) with Paul Allen seated at Teletype Model 33 ASR terminals in Lakeside School, 1970
MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system whose first programming language was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC
Gates delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, January 2008.