The rise of Satya Nadella, the CEO who led Microsoft to becoming more valuable than Apple again in under 5 years (MSFT)

• Microsoft is more valuable than Apple for the first time since 2010. 
• Here's how Satya Nadella came into the CEO role in 2014 and led the company to its present heights.

When Satya Nadella first took the reins as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the company was losing steam fast.

Microsoft Windows 8 had been a disaster. Microsoft employees were constantly battling behind the scenes for supremacy. And all the while, consumers and developers alike were losing the faith. 

Times change.

When the market closed on Friday, Microsoft's market cap had exceeded that of Apple's — something that hasn't happened since President Obama was in office and the Zune was still a thing. It's an exclamation point on Nadella's almost five-year reign, in which he refocused the company and led it to new heights. 

Here's how Satya Nadella came to Microsoft and executed a startling turnaround that led it to be worth more than Apple, with details taken from his book "Hit Refresh" and elsewhere:

This is an update to an article from 2016.

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Satya Narayana Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India, in 1967. His dad was a civil servant and his mother was a professor of the ancient language Sanskrit.

From a young age, Nadella wanted to be a professional cricket player, and played in school. But he realized that his athletic talent was outmatched by his passion for science and technology.

Nadella received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineer from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 1988. "I always knew I wanted to build things," Nadella once said.

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