The remaining 31% of Forbes rich listers sourced their fortunes from inheritance, lucky investments or through pay packages as top company executives. 剩下31%的富豪财富来自继承、幸运投资或公司高管的薪酬待遇。 According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Steve Ballmer is currently the sixth richest...
but that today’s super-rich are mostly heirs. In fact, the opposite is true. The proportion of self-made billionaires among the super-rich has been rising continuously over the last 40 years and the number of heirs has been falling. The clearest documentation of this shift is in the ...
“The Macintosh was truly unique, but I personally don’t understand what is so unique about Steve’s new computer,” Gates says. He points out, for example, that Next cannot produce color video images but must make do with prosaic black and white. (Jobs pleads pressures of time and cost...
As one example, ProPublica estimates that from 2014 through 2018, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was able to generate tax losses totaling $579 million without changing his investment portfolio in a meaningful way. The tax savings from these losses amount to at least $138 million. The scale ...
There's a common mantra these days that corporations are not people. Yes, they are. Starbucks (SBUX) founder and CEO Howard Schultz grew up not far from where I did in Brooklyn, New York. Steve Ballmer, the often-demonized chief executive of Microsoft, grew up In Detroit. His father wor...
Steve Ballmer had a dilemma. He had two groups at Microsoft pursuing competing visions for tablet computers. One group, led by Xbox godfather J Allard, was pushing for a sleek, two-screen tablet called the Courier that users controlled with their finger or a pen. But it had a problem: It...
s going to step into that role. It could be a visionary startup. If I were Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, thinking I’ve missed the social revolution, I might make that play, hedging bets with their Facebook relationship/investment. It could even be someone like IBM, effectively an arms ...
Steve Ballmer Says He and Bill Gates Recommended Nadella as Microsoft CEO, Praises His Performance, CNBC The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study, Investopedia Facebook, Big Data, and the Trust of the Public by Mackenzie Graham, University of Oxford ...
when apple introduced the iphone, steve ballmer laughed. “no chance that the iphone is going to get any significant market share,” he said in 2007, adding that same year, “ipod is a hot brand—not apple.” he pooh-poohed the ipad when it came out, in 2010, and it has been ...
Stan Druckenmiller, former hedge fund manager and founder of Duquesne Capital, is chairman of the fund and a general partner alongside Alphabet President Sergey Brin, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and hedge fund manager David Tepper.