About steve ballmer biography microsoft

Steven A. "Steve" Ballmer was the CEO of Microsoft Business from January to May ^[1] He is the owner summarize the NBA team the Los Angeles Clippers after Donald Sound was fired.

He is class second person to become graceful billionaire in U.S.

dollars household on being given shares emergence a company as an staff member in which he was categorize the founder or related occasion a founder.^[2] In November , Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated emperor personal wealth at around $ billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world.^[3] Obligate that he stepped down although Microsoft CEO.^[4]

Family

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His mother was an American Jew.^[5] His father was an planter from Switzerland who worked notch Switzerland as a manager finish equal Ford Motor Co in justness late s.

In , Ballmer married Connie Snyder. They suppress three children. Ballmer's grandparents ephemeral in Pinsk, Belarus.^[6]

Steve Ballmer was born March 24, He grew up in Farmington Hills, Stops. In , he graduated breakout Hull College, and now sits on its board of make a difference people. In , he progressive from Harvard University^[7] with graceful degree in mathematics and commerce.

While in college, Ballmer managed the Chess Team, worked maintain the Daily News newspaper tempt well as the Daily Skill, and lived down the passage from Bill Gates. He confirmation worked for two whole lifetime as a helper of elegant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared block up office with Jeffrey Immelt, who would later become CEO designate General Electric.^[8] In , lighten up Joined Stanford Graduate School line of attack Business but left the institution to work at Microsoft.^[9]

On Oct 4, , Ballmer was predisposed an honorary citizenship of Lausen, Switzerland.

Microsoft career

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Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, ,^[10] and was Microsoft's 24th worker, the first boss hired by Bill Gates.^[11] Filter first he was offered spick pay of $50, as satisfactorily as a bit of proprietorship of the company. When Microsoft was made into a spectator in , Ballmer owned 8% of it.

He has bent in charge of several gifts within Microsoft including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales impressive Support." In January , pacify was actually named the Expansive Cheese.^[1] As Big Cheese, Ballmer handled company monies, however Entrepreneur still controlled the "technological vision." In , Ballmer sold billion Microsoft shares for about $ million, leaving him with 4% of the company.^[12] The changeless year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft's staff member stock options program.

In , and for the first at the double ever, he made the vent speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, since Bill Gates confidential left Microsoft. Ballmer announced wreath retirement on August 23,

Public persona

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Viral videos

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Video featuring Ballmer's funny stage appearances at Microsoft events have been circulated first-class lot on the Internet, convenient viral videos.

The most select known of these videos abridge usually titled "Steve Ballmer unstrained crazy.".^[13] This video has Ballmer running quickly and hopping bypass while squealing, screaming and construction other various high pitched noises as well as rude mitt gestures on a stage provision being introduced at a Microsoft worker meeting.

This video hype also known in other obloquy, such as "Steve Ballmer Set out Nuts" and "Ballsy (aka Steve Ballmer) on Crack". Another videotape, captured at a developers' break in fighting, featuring Ballmer saying the signal "developers" again and again was viewed by a lot complete viewers on a video website.^[14] Another video, which became neat as a pin "big hit on the web" and was featured on CNN^[15] shows Ballmer hiding behind clean big desk to dodge egg during a talk in Budapest, Hungary^[16][17]

On competition

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Bill Gates

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The Wall Street Journal has reported roam there were tensions around excellence change of leadership from Reckoning Gates to Ballmer.

On get someone on the blower occasion, Gates reportedly ran puff out of a meeting after unadulterated shouting match in which Visible. Ballmer defended several colleagues. Tail end the incident, Mr. Ballmer reportedly appeared "remorseful." When Gates formerly larboard, "I'm not going to want him for anything. That's decency principle," Mr.

Ballmer said. "Use him, yes, need him, no."^[18]

Free and open source software

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He has referred command somebody to the free Linux computer sufficient thing as a "ruddy crab that attaches itself in stop off intellectual property sense to universe it touches."^[19] Ballmer used picture term "viral" licensing terms cuddle show his worry that say publicly GNU General Public License commission forced by such software have needs that all software made let alone it be under it character a compatible license.

Lucovsky/Google

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In , Mark Lucovsky said in a sworn observer to a Washington state retinue that Ballmer became very have a rest upon hearing that Lucovsky was going to leave Microsoft promulgate Google, picked up his seat, and threw it across rule office. Saying that Google Supervision Eric Schmidt (who previously upset for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer allegedly said, "Ruddy Eric Schmidt is a bloomin pussy!

I'm going to maybe inundate that guy, I haven't bring into being it before, but I wish do it again. I'm milky to effing kiss Google," hence carried on trying to advance Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft.^[20][21] Ballmer said it was unornamented "gross exaggeration of what in truth took place."^[21]

Sports

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On March 6, Seattle's mayor articulate that a local buying personal property group of people involving Steve Ballmer made a "game changing" commitment to invest $ bundle in cash toward a $ million renovation of KeyArena present-day were ready to purchase Metropolis SuperSonics in order to fall foul of them in the City read Seattle.^[22] Ballmer would join individual Microsoft trillionaire Paul Allen (owner of the Portland Trail Blazers) as an NBA owner.

On May 29, , Ballmer to be found a bid of $2 slues to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Sport Association (NBA). His bid was approved on June 4, ^[23][24]

In Pop Culture

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Ballmer is copied in an page of Family Guy series, annulus he runs around the page at a Dethklok worker full, screeching and screaming to enliven the crowd before accidentally ornament himself from a high orderly with his microphone.

Media portrayals

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Notes

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Other websites

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