Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella said that his successes is built on what he learnt from failures. He shared his thoughts on how Microsoft plans to help startups, importance of last mile connectivity and failures, in a brief but frank chat with young entrepreneurs at T-Hub.

"It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure in itself cannot be celebrated. When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures," he said when a youngster asked him about how to deal with failure.

He advised the startups to keep three important points in mind - not to lose out on the concept that drives them, capability that you need to build to chase that concept, have persistence and to curate the culture they drive in their organisation on a constant basis.

“The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes," he said. "It's an amazing space for entrepreneurs and it's also inspiring to see that the government here is trying to build a facility such as this for startups."

"When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund," he said when IT Minister K. T. Rama Rao introduced Nadella as the Hyderabadi.

Mr Nadella’s schedule at T-Hub was kept in secrecy to keep off the media, though it was known that he would be visiting the incubator. He was joined by two other tech heavyweights — Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka and Keerti Melkote, the co-founder of Aruba Networks, which was acquired by HP for $3 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) in May 2015.

By Premji