Steve Ballmer Explains Rise From Bill Gates's Assistant to Microsoft CEO
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2018
- Jul.18 -- Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, discusses leaving Stanford to be an early employee at Microsoft. He spoke in the new episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations," taped April 26.
Every time I see the man talking reminds me there’s a chance for everyone.
BIGHEAD
He’s a highly intelligent Harvard grad who beat Bill Gates in a math competition lol. There’s isn’t a chance for everyone…
Ballmers mom: Who the hell would need a computer?
Ballmer: Who the hell would need an iPhone?
Bill Gates: who the hell needs internet?
"Who the hell would need more than 20gb of storage"?
Who the hell needs The Clippers?
luck, timing, and hardwork
Luck and timing are the same
@@gkollias14 timing has to do more with preparation
No, only luck.
@@ijoyner k
And stealing, and monopolising. Lotsa that too
this mans ability to be consistently wrong about everything is legendary.
Yet, he wasn't wrong about investing in Microsoft. And that made him one of the richest men in the world.
@@spanishflea634
you only gotta be right once on a major choice in life
Bruh. He's the 9th richest person on the planet. A Harvard graduate. Did you actually think he was gonna be wrong and fail?
Hopefully you're talking about the host because Balmer? Nah.
@@jayganz7797 Imagine considering a guy worth over 100 BILLION dollars a failure. That's pretty funny.
Steve Ballmer has high school teacher energy. Coach/history teacher
Thanks for the insight.
Worlds richest Secretary
How different he is without cocaine.
No way he could be that fat if he was using leaf
He owns now an nba team, he must be now a role model😆
I have a feeling that his father used to jump around the house shouting when he was passionate about something
Steve Ballmer is a great example of "what kind of CEO not to become" !
Took microsoft down under. ! He was the CEO of the largest Tech company in its prime time 2000 to 2014 & MSFT stock traded at $50 when he started & $45.50 when he quit.
It was so funny to watch the stock jump 8% when he retired !
The stock price is basically what the general public thinks. It isn't that relevant. Indicators like return on assets/investments, or market share are more accurate. You just don't like the guy, that's it. But don't say he was a bad CEO, he along with Gates and his awesome crew created this huge company.
Nicolae,
I didn't want to get into depth of it. But since you've brought it in:
Microsoft had the 1st mobile OS. What did Ballmer do with it ? Nokia acquisition: Why so late to the party ? Was Ballmer sleeping during the rise of smartphones ?
How about Windows updates in his presence ? Why didn't they push Bing early on ? How about his approach to cloud computing ? Zune ?
14 years in Tech from 2000 to 2014 my friend. Look at what Ballmer did not do !
I have heard countless conversation from Microsoft employees. He was the elephant in the room who wouldn't move !
@@MrEyanlakhani Well, Microsoft still exists and makes a ton of profits today. In a few years you'll say that Google has missed out on many opportunities such as ride-hailing or else. Big companies like that prepare for many different projects, some of which are judged relevant to its capabilities and governance, some others not.
While you mention mobiles and cloud, remember that MSFT successfully entered the video game industry with the XBOX and snagged 25% of the market share to Sony, pushing Sega to the exit. Funny that you mention Zune as a cloud example while MSFT is actually the leader in the cloud industry, just before Amazon. Cloud is Nadella's priority since he's taken back on the role.
Lastly, for those who laugh at Ballmer being a "secretary" to Bill Gates, let's just remember that he graduated from Harvard with magna cum laude before entering & dropping out from Stanford to join him. Not the worst educational background to start a career :)
So true. This man is a pity. Vulgar, violent, can’t speak without shouting and spiting during hie CEO time, completely missed the Smartphone area, to name the least... Being friend of the founder can push you to the throne’s seat sometimes, but your wealth is in no way a sign of your real competence and soul quality. This man is a pity, beside his billions.
@@BluEN1111 a stock price is *NOT* - in any way - reflection of what the public think! It’s a direct reflection of the companies’ performance as assessed by traders on the market traded (Nasdaq in this case).
He's many things but the end of the interview is key. His father did not get what Microsoft was doing or why it was important. Ballmer did and believed in it. Sure he took charge later and the company was all over the place but it was still those early days where he saw that this was the future. The previous generation did not get it, but people of his generation and future generations would.
Does anyone have a link to the full interview?
This guy is on the same level as John Wooden as a motivational speaker and I'm proud he's the owner of my favorite team
Full interview please.
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apoplectic: overcome with anger; extremely indignant.
it's so funny ballmer saying his folks were worried about his career prospects
Ballmer has thrown tons of $ into the Clippers and they are an absolutely slightly better team than before, almost winning but not quite the Western Conference finals. This tracks with his record as the CEO of Microsoft where the stock price went from $50 to $45 in the span of about 10 years. Keeping things average has worked out well for Ballmer.
Worst CEO MSFT had so far. Flat stock price during his entire time as CEO and he almost made the company irrelevant.
Stock price is not necessarily representative of the value of the business. Microsoft's net profits under Balmer more than quadrupled since aftermath of the dot com boom and dividend payout tripled. Also don't forget that he was CEO throughout the dot com bust and the financial crisis that followed a few years later. He was a CEO of an already giant company. Apple for comparison was a much smaller company with more room to grow and its stock price began its huge move in early 2009. Balmer would be a fantastic COO, but even as a CEO he wasn't at all bad.
Vitaly Kravchenko Valid points
He's still recovering
Congratulations!🎊🎉🎈🍾
But this doesn't answer shit though. What did he actually do that some other random dude couldn't do that was so special it earned him the CEO spot? Seems to me that CEOs have one of the easiest jobs in a company. Seems some (like this guy) don't actually have any technical skill that takes many years to master, they just make the decisions (with data others gather for them) and tell smart people to do stuff.
He mad the right decisions. That is the difference
Steve is a math and finance genius. Bill knew him for a long time. Steve was the guy who assist Bill in various early level proposals. From 2000-2014 everything good happened in MS is for this guy.
Nice interview - Ballmer comes across well, still quirky
Yeah software goes with hardware. Web goes kaput and majority of software industry goes now that so much requests connectivity.
Glad I held onto the stock after he left lol
I like how people with no virtual experience with managing one of the single biggest company’s in the world says he’s a bad pathetic ceo . It’s not like it’s just him running the show ffs . And they are huge shoes to fill and get used to
Except Nadella's performance, not one man running the show, dramatically improved the fortunes of the company. It was a controlled experiment, and it showed Ballmer is in the annals of worst CEOs.
I need addresses
Now how much do you think Ballmer is worth? DON'T ANSWER!
Developers
The guys who made computer what it is today
Computers are dying out now, everyone is on a phone. We used to laugh at people who held their phone the "wrong" way and produced photographs and video in the wrong aspect ratio.
Now horizontal videos and photographs _ARE_ the correct way ..... even the people who said it was stupid are doing it that way now because everything is viewed on a horizontally held phone.
Not even technology can beat stupidity
it was their good deeds to rise up although technical capability nor knowledge weren't capable of :) ...like the place I worked 10 years ago, an Entertainment Corporate Headquarter, an assistant of Executive Vice President of Technology (this EVP held a core of IT to function/operate the entire entertainment company) was somehow raised by the EVP from personal assistant to Project Manager and Technical Project Manager and Technical Program Manager and Director blah blah blah !! Although when this personal assistant would show of slack of knowledge if being 1-on-1 to discuss with anyone ,,but he somehow got shielded by the EVP to advance !!
The last time I heard he moved onto AWS couple years ago and not sure if he could survive recent mass layoffs ...I hope he could have survived since he started having more family members!! Good luck to him!
Selena Gomez, Sly and Steve Ballmer are the best motivational speakers.
Capital tax should 000
Best NBA owner bars none!
Cool guy, much smarter than he seems to be.
funfact- he has 110 Billion$ reasons not to think about what people thinking about him!
Not even o ne paisa
He should also explain how he made Microsoft irrelevant in this post PC era.
irrelevant? lol have you seen microsoft´s stock? it only goes up
Peter Haberlehner I have seen Apple's stock. Dare to compare it with Microsoft? LOL
Peter Haberlehner Yes, since Satya Nadella became CEO
Michael Blind Nadella is doing good in corporate sector. But he is basically killing Microsoft product ecosystem which Ballmer tried to build, soon Microsoft will only have cloud services and Office 365. Its easier for Nadella to manage cloud company because he is expert in terms of cloud computing, and for investors because of short term profits, but bad for whole company in the long term. Nadella for example killed development of Lumia phones like 2-3 years ago, when the Nokia hardware division owned by Microsoft was merged directly into Microsoft and their budget for new phone development and marketing was cut (the same in case of mobile OS itself). Since then they only produced several mediocre phones and shut down the brand completely. And Nadella made that decision in the time Lumia phones finally started to sell (at least in Europe and some Asian countries).
Hashish: The only thing that is irrelevant is you and whatever sorry misfortune offspring you jerk into this world.
This guy have destroyed se o much for humanity :(
All people with IQ < 77 rejoice !
And yet, in 2023, Windows still sucks at managing memory!
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