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39. Satya Nadella
Microsoft
Title: CEO, Microsoft
Country: US
Age: 48
Since becoming Microsoft’s third CEO last year, Satya Nadella has been busy helping the technology company become relevant again. While Microsoft is still a software giant — it pulls in $95 billion in sales — it’s far from its former glory as tech’s innovative, undisputed leader.
But Nadella, a Microsoft veteran of 23 years, has made significant progress in rejuvenating the company: He successfully released Windows 10, a huge hit that attracted over 110 million users in three months; heconverted Microsoft rivals like Salesforce and Oracle into partners; helaunched Microsoft into the growing Internet of Things market with a new database, cloud service, and big-data analysis service; and heoversaw Microsoft’s biggest layoff round ever while still maintaining his likability among employees.
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