“That is the thing I regret the most. It would have been better for Windows and our success in other foreign factors.”
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Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and a co-founder of the Ballmer Group, a philanthropic investment company.
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business · American businessman and investor (born 1956) · entrepreneur · computer scientist · merchant · also Steve Ballmer, Steve Anthony Ballmer, Ballmer
Born 24 March 1956 · Q181162
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2026· 8 entries
“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I”
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Yahoo Sports: Steve Ballmer claimed Kawhi’s hidden, no-show …
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24/7 Wall St.: Elon Musk Makes Steve Ballmer’s Net Worth In A Week As SpaceX Soars
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The Verge: Five words: Steve Ballmer Jumbotron Corruption Scandal.
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Yahoo Sports: Stephen A. Smith calls for one-year suspensions for Kawhi Leonard, Steve Ballmer
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CBS Sports: Kawhi Leonard investigation lingering questions: How bad can things get for Steve Ballmer and the Clippers?
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Total Pro Sports: Steve Ballmer’s Attorney Fires Back at Pablo Torre’s Report Alleging Major Kawhi Leonard Cap Circumvention
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2025· 2 entries
CNBC: Former Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry says he doesn't believe L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer circumvented salary cap
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Yahoo Finance: Steve Ballmer Once Said This About Being A Billionaire: 'Who...Ever Thinks They're Going To Have Enough Money To Own A Basketball Team?,' Admitted He Was 'Fundamentally Changed ...
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2023· 1 entry
ProPublica did another report, about Ballmer's usage of wash sales helped by Goldman Sachs, under the label "Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting", resulting in tax savings of more than half a billion dollars over 5 years
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2022· 2 entries
In 2022, Ballmer donated $425 million to the University of Oregon to fund a new institute that addresses children's behavioral and mental health needs.
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Ballmer donated $425 million to the University of Oregon to fund a new institute that addresses children's behavioral and mental health needs
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2021· 1 entry
ProPublica documented how Ballmer is using his ownership of various sports teams as a means to lower his federal income tax to as low as 12%, compared to around 35% for the athletes playing on the team
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2017· 1 entry
A not-for-profit organization whose goal is to enable people to understand US government revenue, spending and societal impact
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2016· 3 entries
Ballmer revisited his iPhone statements, saying, "People like to point to this quote
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Reported net worth: $24.8B (as of 2016).
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 3 entries
When Apple had become the world's most valuable company, Ballmer called Microsoft's decision to invest in Apple to save it from bankruptcy in 1997 as the "craziest thing we ever did"
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And his wife co-founded Ballmer Group, a philanthropic investment company that aims to help children, particularly those in poor families, achieve economic mobility
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For circumventing the NBA salary cap, when they offered an unauthorized business opportunity during their pursuit of free agent DeAndre Jordan
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2014· 7 entries
The Seattle Times reported that the IRS sued Ballmer, Craig Mundie, Jeff Raikes, Jim Allchin, Orlando Ayala and David Guenther in an effort to compel them to testify in Microsoft's corporate tax audit
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It was announced that Ballmer would provide a gift, estimated at $60 million, to Harvard University's computer science department
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It was announced that Ballmer and his wife Connie donated $50 million to the University of Oregon
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Ballmer said he would bar the team from using Apple products such as iPads, and replace them with Microsoft products
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That Ballmer would become the Los Angeles Clippers owner
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Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO
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Ballmer retired as CEO and was replaced by Satya Nadella; Ballmer remained on Microsoft's board of directors until August 19, 2014
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2013· 3 entries
Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months
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Ballmer and Hansen led a group of investors in an attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings from the Maloof family and relocate them to Seattle for an estimated $650 million
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Ballmer said that Google was a "monopoly" that should be pressured from market competition authorities
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2012· 3 entries
Ballmer revealed Microsoft's first ever computer device, a tablet called Microsoft Surface at an event held in Hollywood, Los Angeles
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This led Businessweek to say that the company "arguably [had] the best product lineup in its history"
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As the Microsoft Business Division (including Office 365) and Server and Tools division (cloud services) are each larger than the Windows division
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2009· 2 entries
And for the first time since Bill Gates resigned from day-to-day management at Microsoft, Ballmer delivered the opening keynote at CES
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Ballmer criticized Apple's pricing, saying, "Now I think the tide has turned back the other direction (against Apple)
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2008· 2 entries
Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that a local ownership group involving Ballmer made a "game-changing" commitment to invest $150 million in cash toward a proposed $300 million renovation of KeyArena and were ready to
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That he intended to remain CEO for another decade, Ballmer announced his retirement in 2013, after losing billions of dollars in acquisitions and on the Surface tablet
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2007· 2 entries
Ballmer said, "iPhone is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't have a keyboard
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“iPhone is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn”
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2006· 2 entries
While staying on as chairman, and that gave Ballmer the autonomy needed to make major management changes at Microsoft
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Claimed that it infringed Microsoft's intellectual property
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2005· 1 entry
Microsoft sued Google for hiring one of its previous vice presidents, Kai-Fu Lee, claiming it was in violation of his one-year non-compete clause in his contract
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2004· 1 entry
Alleged in a sworn affidavit to a Washington state court that Ballmer became enraged upon being told by Lucovsky that he was about to leave Microsoft for Google, picked up a chair, and threw it across his office, and tha
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2001· 1 entry
Were right at the time but that times have changed
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2000· 4 entries
Ballmer was officially named the chief executive officer; he would shed the title of president in February 2001
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2000–2014).
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That Ballmer was willing to become CEO so he could focus on technology, The Wall Street Journal reported that there was tension surrounding the transition of authority
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A widely circulated video was his entrance on stage at Microsoft's 25th anniversary event in September 2000, where Ballmer jumped across the stage and shouted, "I love this company!" Another viral video was captured at a Windows 2000 developers' conference, featuring a visibly perspiring Ballmer repeatedly chanting the word "developers".
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1998· 1 entry
And replaced Gates as CEO on January 13, 2000
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1996· 2 entries
“When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client.”
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“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google.”
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1990· 1 entry
And the couple have three sons, Sam Ballmer, Aaron Ballmer, and Peter Ballmer
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1981· 1 entry
Ballmer owned 8% of the company
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1980· 2 entries
And became Microsoft's 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates
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And subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford University
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1977· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, bachelor's degree (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
Attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University
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1956· 2 entries
In Detroit, Michigan, as the son of Beatrice Dworkin (1920–1997) and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer (1923–2000), a manager at the Ford Motor Company
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Born 1956-03-24.
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