The return on the stock is more than 1000%, and Nadella's salary is reported to be more than $1 billion.

CTOnews.com July 20 news, according to Bloomberg news agency reported that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) compensation in the generation of AI boost, including equity grants, salaries, bonuses and dividends, etc., total compensation income has exceeded 1 billion US dollars (CTOnews.com note: currently about 7.23 billion yuan).

One of the biggest investments is Nadella's Microsoft stock, which has returned more than 1000 percent since becoming CEO in 2014.

CTOnews.com Note: Bloomberg does not count spending and private investment. Regulatory filings show he gave away $20 million worth of stock over the years without disclosing the beneficiaries.

Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw said via email that Nadella "has no net worth of $1 billion or more." He declined to comment further.

Nadella's most transformative move may have been the company's multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI and its ChatGPT robot, which one senior executive called the "Windows 95 moment," a reference to the hugely successful software released nearly three decades ago that put Microsoft ahead of competitors like Alphabet Inc.

Microsoft's share price hit an all-time high after it announced the pricing of Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot, rising nearly 3.98% to a 52-week high of $366.78.