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Every book Satya Nadella recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Satya Nadella has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of November 29, 2025.
- Satya Nadella has talked about books on 3 podcasts, as of November 29, 2025.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of November 29, 2025.
- The 2 books Satya Nadella has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Satya Nadella's own, as of November 29, 2025: Mindset and Technology and the Rise of Great Powers.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Satya Nadella aired on November 29, 2025.
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Across 3 podcasts. Every show Satya Nadella appears on, in one place, not just one.
Satya Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms. Nadella discussed several books across various podcast appearances. He brought up Carol S. Dweck's Mindset, which was introduced to him by his wife prior to his CEO tenure, to illustrate the importance of adopting a learn-it-all attitude rather than a know-it-all mentality. He also referenced Jeffrey Ding's work in Technology and the Rise of Great Powers to argue that the ultimate winners in artificial intelligence will be those who diffuse and scale its usage broadly. Additionally, Nadella discussed the themes, writing process, and purpose of continuous renewal behind his own book, Hit Refresh.
Books Satya Nadella recommended or discussed
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Mindset
Discussed“We the one of the metaphors we use a lot coming out of this child psychology and Carol Dwek's work of growth mindset is uha when you say skill set there's I think the most important skill set for long-term relevance is you know how do you be be a learn it all and not a knowit all right that”
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Hit Refresh
Discussed“If anything, you know, my entire purpose of this book, at least, was, look, this process is a continuous process of renewal.”
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Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
Discussed“I think if you think back I I'm a big believer in the Jeffrey Ding uh you know school which is all about diffusion of technology right everybody today is more about the hype of one AI technology quite frankly the country or that is going to really win is going to be the one that can scale up broadly”
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Books Satya Nadella wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI Boom, Energy Battle & His Complicated Alliance with Sam Altman | MD MEETS | 2025-11-29 | 2 |
| Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner | BG2 Pod | 2024-12-12 | 1 |
| 324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview | Freakonomics Radio | 2018-03-12 | 3 |
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Even the books, like everything, whether it's Nonviolent Communication or Carol Dweck's Mindset, were all books my wife introduced me to there.”
“Even the books, like everything, whether it's Nonviolent Communication or Carol Dweck's Mindset, were all books my wife introduced me to there.”
“And I write about this in the book as well, which is I think empathy is only developed through your life's experience.”
“I don't think even that interview question I write about, I always ask myself,”
“No, we are sending copies to every employee and it's an annotated edition. So we have, in fact, it's called not hit refresh but it's F5”