Microsoft, Adobe, Mastercard CEOs all went to the same high school - Siyalla
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Description: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went to Hyderabad Public School, alongside the CEOs of Adobe and Mastercard. HPS is a tuition based school in southern India that was initially established as a school for the children of privileged people.
Date: 2018-04-01T14:15:20+00:00

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# Microsoft, Adobe, Mastercard CEOs all went to the same high school

Attending the school “was the best break I had in my life,” said Satya Nadella, pictured. (Microsoft)

- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went to Hyderabad Public School, alongside the CEOs of Adobe and Mastercard.
- HPS is a tuition based school in southern India that was initially established as a school for the children of privileged people.
- Nadella played cricket there, and says the experience emphatically impacted his expert vocation.

In case you’re hoping to raise a standout amongst the most intense business pioneers on the planet, you should need to send your child to Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, in India.

#### In a meeting with Stephen Dubner on a scene of the Freakonomics podcast, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that not exclusively did he go to HPS so did Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, and Ajay Banga, the CEO of Mastercard.

HPS is the thing that Americans would consider to be a tuition based school in spite of the fact that in India, similar to England, the schools Americans would call “private” are called government funded schools. As indicated by the school’s site, it was set up in 1923 and was initially a school for the children of privileged people, displayed after Eton College in London. In 2017, it was positioned one of the main 10 schools in India.

Indian schoolchildren perform yoga at Delhi Public School in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. (Mahesh Kumar A./AP Images)

Hyderabad, the southern Indian city where HPS is found, is a tech center point. Since 1990, it’s been home to the central command of Microsoft India.

> “Going to the HPS was the best break I had in my life,”

Nadella said when he went to HPS in 2017, as indicated by The Hindu.

Nadella played cricket at HPS, and he’s talked before about how the game impacted his vocation. In a current meeting with Wharton Business School, Nadella said he gained from his secondary school cricket mentor how to walk the “line between believing in your own particular capacity yet being able to learn.”

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Nadella likewise met his better half, Anupama Nadella, at HPS.

HPS’ center esteems, as indicated by its site, incorporate “solid confidence” and “resistance and regard for others.” The school saying? “Be watchful.”

The site peruses: “These words urge youthful understudies to be rationally alarm, physically prepared to take up the difficulties that life brings to the table.”

Original article by Shana Lebowitz

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