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Steve Ballmer
Ex-CEO, MicrosoftBirth DetailsMarch 24, 1956 | Detroit, Michigan
NationalityAmerican
LeagueBusiness Leader
EducationBachelor’s Degree, Harvard University; MBA, Stanford University (drop out)
Net Worth$73.8 billion (As of May 29, 2021)
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Steve Ballmer's Journey so far ...
Before you go ...
- Stake in Microsoft
- L.A. Clippers
Steve Ballmer's Journey so far ...
- After graduating from Harvard in 1977, Steve Ballmer took up a job at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager
- He quit two years later to pursue business studies at Stanford
- He left Stanford a year later in 1980 and went on to work for Bill Gates at Microsoft
- He started at the very bottom and was the company’s first non-programmer employee
- During his initial days at Microsoft, Ballmer worked in several departments including sales, marketing and accounting. He helped Gates hire new people, delegate responsibilities and expand. He also helped the company close a major deal with IBM which later established Microsoft’s name in the operating systems (OS) market
- After serving Microsoft in a series of executive positions, Ballmer was appointed as the president of the company in 1998
- He succeeded Gates to become the CEO of Microsoft in 2000
- In his tenure as CEO, he not only steered the company’s progress through the dot-com burst but also pioneered several of the company’s achievements including the release of the Xbox gaming console in 2001, launch of the search engine Bing in 2009 and the acquisition of Skype in 2011
- Ballmer stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft in 2014 and passed on his responsibilities to Satya Nadella
- After retiring, later in 2014, he bought the NBA team Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion
- He also created the Ballmer Group -- a philanthropic organisation that helps economically underprivileged Americans -- in 2014
- Currently, he owns around 4% shares of Microsoft and is one of the richest persons in the world
Before you go ...
- He had first met Bill Gates while studying in Harvard
- Balmer was Microsoft’s employee no. 30
- In 2015, he had acquired around 4% stake in Twitter which he sold off in 2018
Last Updated: 29/05/2021
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