Ballmer's estimated net worth exceeded $157 billion in July 2024, for the first time pulling ahead of his former boss, Bill Gates, whose net worth is estimated at just over $156 billion.1
Tim Cook has now run Apple for five years, long enough for this to be his company rather than Steve Jobs’. The parallel between Gates and Ballmer and Jobs and Cook is eerie. Apple under Cook has doubled its revenues to $200 billion while doubling profit and tripling the amount of c...
. They’ve been having some issues with transportation, so for instance yesterday morning about 100 of us ended up missing the first executive session altogether and half of Steve Ballmer’s presentation because our bus was… In Seattle Date Published: 28 September 2005 I’m in Seattle this ...
Then Gates retired as CEO in January 2000 to embark on his much more important mission to save the world, businessman Ballmer took control of Microsoft, and the result was just what you’d expect if Batman ceded Gotham to Robin. Microsoft rested on its Windows and Office laurels the past ...
Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. Microsoft executed its 20th-century...