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What this 8-year-old aspires to do as Microsoft CEO?

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Riddhi Sharma
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So, what were you up to when you were 8-year old? Perhaps, playing gully-cricket with your friends or busy with your play-station or spending your time counting your trump cards. Sigh!

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However, here's this 8-year-old who is determined to think and live differently. He is a smart, intelligent and responsible kid who talks about environment sustainability and development in the same breath.

Well...we all have heard about bright kids, child prodigies, and this one is surely one classic case of those impressive tales we narrate to our kids.

He has developed a gaming app and wishes to be the next Microsoft CEO too and wants to build it into a technology company that can take over all the companies in the world!!

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Meet Medansh Mehta, a game developer from Mumbai, who recently met Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the latter's visit to India this week.

The 8-year-old did not just shake hands and "click a photo with" Satya Nadella, he impressed him to the core. To prove why we say the above lines, this is what Satya Nadella said during his keynote address:

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"I met an eight-year-old, and this is perhaps the time where I felt the most inadequate. And, the eight-year old's dream is to create a society that knows how to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability. This is the goal he has and then he translated that vision, that goal, into a novel game that he’s build."

Medansh's gaming app is called "Let there be light" and focuses on balancing development and the environment.

Medansh later explained his game in his interview with CNBC, "You have to build things like factories, farms so that the prosperity of the city increases. At a certain level, the city brightens up and you have to reach a certain level of prosperity that is 1,500 coins in 5 minutes." The game rewards you for using solar energy or opting for renewable sources over others.

When Medansh shared his dream and the roadmap to be the CEO of Microsoft, Nadella said,"You are already ambitious beyond being the next CEO." "The game has the sensibility that all of us need."