this story originally appeared in on feb 21 2017bengaluru microsoft chief executive officer satya nadella said an enlightened immigration policy has enabled him to live the american dream even as he emphasised that governments had the right to determine immigration and trade policies american values have always been about inclusion and diversity its a land of immigrants said nadella who was born in hyderabad and completed his bachelors degree in engineering from the manipal institute of technology before moving to the us in 1988 american technology reaching me in india is what made it even possible to dream the dream and then the enlightened american immigration policy is what led me to live the dream and i think those are things we will always advocate for the american dream and the american enlightened immigration policy especially for highskilled workers is something that im optimistic about nadella told etin an interview recent actions of the trump administration notably the attempt to stop immigration from seven muslimmajority countries have raised concerns about americas continuing commitment to attracting the best talent from across the world the overall labour mobility in the world is going to be defined by every countrys immigration policy every countrys trade deal or protectionism every country rightfully so should think about their own national interest first said nadella who is on a threeday visit to india which will see him travelling to bengaluru mumbai and delhi its going to be india first in india uk first in uk america first in america our job is to operate in all of these countries with these principles of local opportunity creation he said nadella also gave a thumbsup to the indian governments digital drive india stacks vision of having a presenceless cashless paperless vision which is fundamentally about bringing down transactional costs in the economy so that every citizen small business and large business can all benefit is a grand vision said nadella india stack is industry jargon for applications on the aadhaar platform and unified payment interface upi nadella has been credited with reshaping and turning around microsoft after he took over as ceo in february 2014 since then the company has focussed on a cloud first mobile first model even as it sold off noncore businesses like the phone unit it acquired from nokia the company has also invested heavily in data centres across the world and pursued new business segments such as the cloud platform business where it competes with the likes of amazon cloud provides the ability of enterprises especially small and medium businesses to purchase computing and data storage capacity rather than invest capital on their own under nadellas watch microsoft also made the largest acquisition in its history by snapping up business networking company linkedin for 262 billion in june 2016 nadella allayed fears that the dawn of artificial intelligence will lead to largescale unemployment in heavily populated countries like india in a country like india where there is going to