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Satya Nadella
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
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CEO since 2014, Chairman since 2021. Led Microsoft's transformation to cloud-first, AI-first strategy. Oversaw Azure growth, OpenAI partnership, and Activision Blizzard acquisition.
Podcasts, interviews & articles
10 recorded appearances
2026
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Building the Frontier Ecosystem
In conversation with Michael Abbott, Nadella traced the OpenAI investment back to Microsoft's long-standing obsession with natural language processing and laid out how he thinks about Microsoft's position in the frontier-model ecosystem.
Satya Nadella on A.I. Jobs: Humans Will Do the 'Glue Work'
Nadella argued that as agents take over discrete tasks, the remaining human contribution is 'glue work' — connecting, judging and orchestrating across systems rather than executing individual steps.
Satya Nadella: AI Is the Future of the Firm
Recorded after Build 2026, Nadella made the case that human capital and 'token capital' now compound together, and that companies — not just countries — must build their own AI capability rather than rent a frontier model.
Build 2026 Podcast: Satya Nadella, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil from No Priors, and Swyx from Latent Space
Post-keynote sit-down covering the Build announcements: agentic AI and coding, the Windows developer experience overhaul, and new Windows hardware.
An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
Nadella discussed how Microsoft defines its role in AI, the current shape of the OpenAI relationship, capex discipline, the fate of software margins, and a potential new agentic platform.
Microsoft Build 2026 | Satya Nadella Opening Keynote
Nadella pitched developers on participating in a 'frontier intelligence ecosystem' they own rather than merely consuming a model, introducing Autopilots (long-running autonomous agents) and new Windows AI hardware, with guests including Mustafa Suleyman and Jensen Huang.
Conversation with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Davos 2026 on-stage conversation on AI's effect on white-collar work, Microsoft's capex and the competitive dynamics among frontier labs.
2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI Boom, Energy Battle & His Complicated Alliance with Sam Altman
Nadella talked through the energy constraint on AI buildout and the evolving, sometimes awkward, partnership with OpenAI and Sam Altman.
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
With Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis inside the Fairwater 2 datacenter, Nadella said models will commoditize and value accrues to scaffolding and application layers, and defended pausing some datacenter builds to preserve 'fungibility' across hardware generations and workloads.