Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer was born and raised in the Detroit area. His father was a manager at Ford Motor Company. Later Steve Ballmer attended Harvard where, among other highlights, he lived down the hall from his future former employer (Bill Gates) and served as the manager of the football team. He graduated with a BA in mathematics and economics.

The company suffered from the classic innovator’s dilemma. It built extraordinary software that you run on your desktop. And as we moved away from our desktops and into the cloud and onto mobile devices, Microsoft trundled slowly and tentatively. It hesitated to embrace the cloud, and it hesitated to build anything that didn’t work with Windows. In 2005, it brought in a legendary coder, Ray Ozzie , to solve this problem. In 2010, he left. The company has built a technically brilliant gaming system, and the recently launched Xbox One is fully cloud-based—and almost totally separate from the parts of the company that bring in cash.

The Clippers’ $2 billion purchase price is the most ever paid for a North American sports franchise, in part because it is far from a lousy small market team. The Clippers have turned into a championship contender over the past few seasons, with superstars Chris Paul and Blake Griffin helping bust the Lakers’ decades-long monopoly on Los Angeles basketball fans. The dreary Milwaukee Bucks selling for $550 million in April foreshadowed an astonishing Clippers bid.

The vast majority of Steve Ballmer's net worth is derived from his 333.3 million shares of Microsoft stock. Over the years he has sold $3.4 billion worth of stock and collected roughly $3 billion from dividends. Despite being a multi-multi-billionaire, Ballmer still drives a Ford in honor of his father who was a Ford manager. Ballmer, who retired as Microsoft’s CEO four months ago, has a net worth of $20 billion," Ozanian wrote. "Another source, with intimate knowledge of the bids that Rochelle Sterling has thus far received for the basketball team, said offers have come in between $1 billion and $2 billion and that the Ballmer package is strong." Steve Ballmer does NOT like The Karate Kid Steve Ballmer is NOT Richard M. Stallman's brother.

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