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Satya Narayana Nadella, born on 19 August 1967, in Hyderabad, is an Indo - American business executive. He is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft.

Nadella received a BE in electrical engineering from Manipal Institute if Technology in 1998. Later, he received M.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1990, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technical staff prior to joining Microsoft in 1992. At Microsoft, Nadella has led major projects that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of Azure, one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world. After Nadella took over in 2011, the Cloud Services revenue grew from $ 16.6 billion to $ 20.3 billion in two years.Nadella's leadership of Microsoft included a series of high - profile acquisitions of other companies like, Mojang, Xamarin, Linkedln, and GitHub. Since Nadella became the CEO, Microsoft stock has risen more than 130 %, achieving an all - time high.

Azim Premji is currently the second wealthiest Indian and 58th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of approx. $ 19 billion in 2018. He was born on July 24, 1945. While pursuing Electrical Engineering from Standard University, USA, he was called upon to handle the family business due to the sudden demise of his father. Azim Premji took over the reins of family business in 1966 at the age of 21.

Started as a vegetable oil company in 1949 from an old mill founded by his father, Azim Premji repositional it and transformed Wipro into a cusumer goods company that produced hydrogenated cooking oils / fat. At that time, it was valued at $ 2 million. In 1977, when IBM was asked to leave India, Wipro entered in the information technology sector. In 1980, Wipro moved into software development and started devwlopment and started developing customised software packages for their hardware customers. As of 2019, the total assests of Wipro are US $ 12.04 billion with an employee strength of 171,425. In 2011, he has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award by the Government of India.

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Vinod Khosla is an epitome of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is a venture capitalist and is better known as one of the co - founders of Sun Microsystems.

At the age of 16, Vinod Khosla read about the founding of Intel. This motivated him to nurture dreams of starting his own technology company. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. Vinod Khosla went to US and did his Mastets in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie - Mellon University. His entrepreneurial ambitions attracted him to Silicon Valley and subsequently he did his MBA from Stanford University in 1980.

In 1982, he started Sun Microsystems to build workstations for software developers. Vinod Khosla also challenged Intel's monopoly by developing Nexgen / AMD. Vinod's greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs and assisting them to build technology based business. Mr. Vinod Khosla's net worth is $ 2.7 billion as of today.

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