Satya Nadella

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft

Search every verified Satya Nadella interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, has been active in a series of public appearances over the past two months, including the company's Build 2026 developer conference, earnings calls, and interviews. At Build 2026, Nadella announced the Majorana 2 quantum computer, which he said provides a qubit mean lifetime of up to a minute and operations of one microsecond, and introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a developer machine with one petaflop of AI compute. He also discussed a partnership with NVIDIA, including the RTX Spark system-on-chip and the Windows DGX Station, which he described as a "desktop data center." In conversations with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, Nadella emphasized a shift toward an "agentic" computing ecosystem. In earnings calls and interviews, Nadella discussed the transition of Microsoft's business models from per-user to per-user and usage-based pricing, and said that IT budgets will be reshaped by business outcomes and reallocation from other line items. He stated that the company expects capital expenditures to increase to over $40 billion in the next quarter. In a conversation with The New York Times' Hard Fork podcast, Nadella said that "everyone is a stakeholder" in AI and that the industry must address public anxiety about the technology. He also said that the economy must be at the frontier of AI, not just a single firm or model. In an interview with American Express, Nadella discussed the importance of partnerships and said that a platform company is defined by the value created above the platform.