Microsoft's Nadella will not change business model for Trump
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of US tech giant Microsoft, has said that his company will not scramble to please president-elect Donald Trump.
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Nadella, who was speaking during the DLD tech conference in Munich, said that the majority of the group's global jobs count is based in the United States, but it would continue to grow its operations globally.
Trump gained an unexpected victory in the presidential election based on campaign promises including protectionist trade policies such as high taxes for US companies which make products outside the country.
"We're a US-based company that operates worldwide and our predominant employment is in the United States," Nadella said. "We've already created a tremendous amount of high-paying jobs in the US."
Microsoft has over 113,000 employees globally, with over half of those employed in the US. Nadella was present at December's meeting of tech leaders at Trump Tower, which appears to have smoothed over differences between the Republican and the industry.
"If anything, we'll double down on what we've always done, which is be a US company that operates in the United States very responsibly, but also being a multinational company that contributes into every country that we work in."
Trump will be inaugurated on Friday in Washington, with world financial markets lying in wait to see if Trump will follow through with his campaign policies which brought him to the White House.