Here are eight surprising things about Satya Nadella. Feb. 4, 2014 — -- intro: Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) named Satya Nadella as its new chief executive officer effective immediately ...

Some staff questioned Satya Nadella's memo on job cuts amid huge earnings. Microsoft has shed thousands of employees this year, as it spends $80 billion on AI. Employees speculated about the memo ...

Nadella called this tension the “enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value,” arguing that success in tech is not permanent or evenly distributed. “Progress isn’t linear.