Steve Ballmer

Date of Birth:

24-Mar-1956

Nationality:

Andorra

Profession:

Businessman

Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer is an American businessman who served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014. Prior to becoming a CEO he held a number of senior positions at Microsoft, leading a number of departments including operations. , application development, and sales and sponsorship. He has also served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, and President of Microsoft. As a college friend of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, Ballmer was one of the company's first employees. In fact, he was the first business manager hired by Gates. Born into a wealthy family, Steve Ballmer grew up to be an excellent student with extraordinary mathematical skills. He graduated from Harvard College and worked part-time at Procter & Gamble before joining the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He resigned to replace his new friend Bill Gates and continued to enjoy great success at Microsoft. Retired from Microsoft following a good career, Ballmer now focuses on the other side of his passion - basketball - and currently owns the Los Angeles Clippers National Basketball Association (NBA).

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"My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure."

"We need to have service offerings associated with each of our products that allow us to feed innovations that are appropriate to the market on, let's just call it a six-, probably more realistically a nine-month cycle,"

"We believe this has potential over time to be a major new revenue stream,"

"Just as we succeeded on the on the desktop, we will strive to succeed in services on the Web,"

"Accessible design is good design."

"We want to give people the ability to do what they want, where they want, and when they want on any device connected to the Internet,"

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."

"I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution."

"I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me."

"We will make our products work out of the box."