Is Satya Nadella IITian?

Now that we’ve screamed ourselves hoarse over Satya Nadella’s ascension to the top of the world’s fourth-largest corporation by market capitalization, it’s time to ask if there’s anything we can learn from his climb.

Microsoft is brimming with bright engineers from India’s finest engineering universities, the IITs, as well as graduates from the best schools in a variety of other countries.

Despite this, Nadella, a graduate of the Manipal Institute of Technology, has been picked to run Microsoft at a time when the company is facing significant challenges.

It’s not as if his engineering abilities are in doubt. Rather, his non-engineering abilities appear to have aided him in overcoming a slew of talented nerds.

Satya was an all-rounder in school, according to reports. He was a champion debater and a good student, but not at the top of his class.

He played a lot of cricket, played pranks, loved music, and was a champion debater and a good student, but not at the top of his class.

He also fell in love with, wooed, and married a junior in high school and college. This is not the image of the perfect student that most Indians have in mind: disciplined, focused minds who control their natural desire to explore the world outside of their study material and are role models for filial piety, especially when it comes to marriage.